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''Guanarito virus''


Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is a (Zygodontomys brevicauda), and the Cotton Rat (Sigmodon alstoni). Human-to-human transmission of the virus has not been observed.

Guanarito virus is a member of the Arenavirus genus of negative single-stranded RNA Virus es, and is closely related to a number of other rodent-borne emerging viruses that cause Hemorrhagic Fever in South America.