Other Human Disease -- Peru
According to the latest report of the Regional Health Office (DIRESA), to date 74 confirmed new Oropouche fever cases have been registered in the Ayacucho districts.
Oropouche fever is a little-known disease in the country, and investigation continues of which mosquito [sic, _Culicoides_ gnat] is responsible for transmission of the disease [virus] that is affecting the people in the Ayacucho forest.
According to DIRESA director Hugo Huamán Brizuela, the symptoms of Oropouche fever are
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