Bunyamwera virus

Bunyamwera virus
Virus classification
Group: Group V ((-)ssRNA)
Order: Unassigned
Family: Bunyaviridae
Genus: Orthobunyavirus
Species: Bunyamwera virus

The Bunyamwera virus (BUNV) is a negative-sense single stranded enveloped RNA virus. It is the type species of the Orthobunyavirus genus, in the Bunyaviridae family.

Bunyamwera virus can infect both humans and Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito).[1]

It is named for Bunyamwera, a town in Western Uganda where the type species was isolated in 1943. Reassortant viruses derived from Bunyamwera virus, such as Ngari virus, have caused large outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fever in Kenya and Somalia.[2][3]

Disease in Humans

Bunyamwera fever
Classification and external resources
Specialty Infectious disease
ICD-10 A92.8
ICD-9-CM 066.3

In humans Bunyamwera virus causes Bunyamwera fever.

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