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Travel-associated international spread of Oropouche virus beyond the Amazon
Iani, Felipe Campos de Melo; Pereira, Felicidade Mota; Oliveira, Elaine Cristina de; Rodrigues, Janete Taynã Nascimento; Machado, Mariza HoffmannOropouche virus (OROV), first detected in Trinidad and Tobago in 1955, was historically confined to the Brazilian Amazon Basin. However, since late 2022, an increasing number of OROV cases have been reported across various regions of Brazil as well as in urban centers in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, and Peru. In collaboration with Central Public Health Laboratories across Brazil, we integra...
Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monk...
Happi, Christian; Adetifa, Ifedayo; Mbala, Placide; Njouom, Richard; Nakoune, Emmanuel; Happi, Anise; Ndodo, Nnaemeka; Ayansola, OyeronkeWe propose a novel, non-discriminatory classification of monkeypox virus diversity. Together with the World Health Organization, we named three clades (I, IIa and IIb) in order of detection. Within IIb, the cause of the current global outbreak, we identified multiple lineages (A.1, A.2, A.1.1 and B.1) to support real-time genomic surveillance.