AREQUIPA, Peru – The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported that at least a dozen European tourists who visited the island in July contracted Oropouche fever.
A report from Europa Press provides details from an ECDC document on communicable disease threats for the period between July 27 and August 2.
According to the document, three new cases of the virus have been recorded in Spain, all of them travelers coming from Cuba, and five more in Italy.
The cases in Spain were reported in (and reside in) three different autonomous communities. The onset of symptoms ranged from May 30, 2024, to June 17, 2024.
All those affected experienced mild clinical symptoms (fever, myalgia, skin rash, etc.), and all have recovered. There is no connection between them, except for a travel history involving Cuba.
On June 7, the first European case of Oropouche was reported in Italy, in a 26-year-old woman who returned to the Veneto region on May 26, after visiting the Cuban province of Ciego de Á
