After carrying out 200 tests, the Ministry of Health (Minsal) assured that there is no presence of these diseases in Salvadoran territory, something that the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabi, also said in an interview to a local television channel.

The tests carried out were negative, the information explained. They were carried out in unison with the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to detect dengue in the country, a disease of which there are 620 confirmed cases.

According to studies, the disease is caused by the OROV virus and is transmitted through the bite of the tiny gnat and the Culex mosquito, and is classified as an arbovirosis-type disease, of the same family as dengue, Zika and chikungunya.

In July, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) alerted on the need to monitor the appearance of any case of oropouche, a disease of greater incidence in South of America, especially in Brazil, where 7,931 persons have been affected and two deaths have been recorded.

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