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Oropouche is often called sloth fever because scientists isolated the virus in a three-toed sloth in Brazil in 1960. They suspected that sloths were important in the spread of the virus.

The virus gets the name “Sloth Virus” as the virus is transmitted between mosquitoes and non-human-vertebrate hosts such as sloths.