Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2006)

Second Human Case of Cache Valley Virus Disease

  • Grant L. Campbell,
  • James D. Mataczynski,
  • Erik S. Reisdorf,
  • James W. Powell,
  • Denise A. Martin,
  • Amy J. Lambert,
  • Thomas E. Haupt,
  • Jeffrey P. Davis,
  • Robert S. Lanciotti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1205.051625
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 5
pp. 854 – 856

Abstract

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We document the second known case of Cache Valley virus disease in a human. Cache Valley virus disease is rarely diagnosed in North America, in part because laboratories rarely test for it. Its true incidence, effect on public health, and full clinical spectrum remain to be determined.

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