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Cache Valley virus infection

A disease, caused by one of the viruses of the Bunyaviridae family, featuring severe fever, muscle ache, headache, vomiting and a rash, and progressing to brain inflammation (encephalitis), muscle necrosis and multi-organ failure. The disease is not uncommon in livestock and other large mammals but is very rare in humans.

Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

References in periodicals archive

Life-threatening Cache Valley virus infection. N Engl J Med.

Maguari virus associated with human disease

Serological evidence of California group and Cache Valley virus infection in Minnesota white-tailed deer.

Severe sepsis caused by California serogroup orthobunyavirus

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