{"id":212948,"date":"2025-05-01T05:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/potential-global-threat-this-mysterious-virus-is-spreading-quietly-across-latin-america"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:20:22","slug":"potential-global-threat-this-mysterious-virus-is-spreading-quietly-across-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/potential-global-threat-this-mysterious-virus-is-spreading-quietly-across-latin-america","title":{"rendered":"Potential Global Threat: This Mysterious Virus Is Spreading Quietly Across Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potential-global-threat-this-mysterious-virus-is-spreading-quietly-across-latin-america.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur data shows that Oropouche virus is massively under-diagnosed in Latin America,\u201d says Drexler, who also conducts research at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). \u201cIn some areas, at least one person in ten has experienced a prior infection with the pathogen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>More widespread than thought \u2013 but still insufficiently investigated<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oropouche virus causes nonspecific symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, pain in the limbs, and, in some cases, nausea and skin rashes. For a long time, the disease was considered to be predominantly mild, and reports of more severe bouts, including meningitis, were rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur data shows that Oropouche virus is massively under-diagnosed in Latin America,\u201d says Drexler, who also conducts research at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). \u201cIn some areas, at least one person in ten has experienced a prior infection with the pathogen.\u201d More widespread than thought \u2013 but still insufficiently investigated Oropouche virus causes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}