Medscape Medical News has published an article detailing what clinicians need to know in order to be better prepared to face the Oropouche Virus Disease, an arbovirus disease trasmitted primarily through bites from infected midges (Culicoides paraensis) but also through a variety of mosquito species. The disease is mainly distributed in South and Central America and the Caribbean, but cases are now being imported into Europe.
Dr. Jan Felix Drexler © GLACIER
For this article, GLACIER co-PI and Charité Medicin University researcher Dr. Jan Felix Drexler, who has studied the emergence of Oropouche fever in Latin America, was invited to speak about the topic. Among other questions, he answers:
- What the main symptoms of OROV disease are for which clinicians should be alert
- What the differential diagnosis is if a recent traveler to affected regions presents with symptoms
- What personal protective measures clinicians should advise travelers in affected areas to take