Symptoms of Sloth fever include fever, severe headache, chills, muscle aches, joint pain, nausea, vomiting, and a rash.
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The Oropouche virus was named after a village in Trinidad and Tobago where the virus was first isolated from an infected person.
Sloth fever has been reported in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Sloth fever is caused by the Oropouche virus, an orthobunyavirus.
Orthobunyaviruses are a group of viruses that includes the Oropouche virus, which is different from flaviviruses like dengue and alphaviruses like chikungunya.