Sabiá Virus–Like Mammarenavirus in Patient with Fatal Hemorrhagic Fever, Brazil, 2020

Abstract

V iral infections have become an important public health issue in South America during the past 2 decades. Outbreaks of arboviral disease, such as dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever, have increased concern about improving surveillance and diagnosis of viral infections in anticipation of the next threat (1-4). South American arenaviruses belong to the New World serogroups, cause chronic infection in rodents, and have been associated with neurologic symptoms and hemorrhagic fever in humans (5).