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Volume 31, Number 5—May 2025
Dispatch

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, Peruvian Amazon, 2020

Marta Piche-Ovares, Maria Paquita García Mendoza, Andres Moreira-Soto, Carlo Fischer, Sebastian Brünink, Maribel Dana Figueroa-Romero, Nancy Susy Merino-Sarmiento, Adolfo Ismael Marcelo-Ñique, Edward Málaga-Trillo, Miladi Gatty-Nogueira, César Augusto Cabezas Sanchez, and Jan Felix DrexlerComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (M. Piche-Ovares, A. Moreira-Soto, C. Fischer, S. Brünink, J.F. Drexler); Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru (M.P. García Mendoza, M.D. Figueroa-Romero, N.S. Merino-Sarmiento, A.I. Marcelo-Ñique, C.A. Cabezas Sanchez); Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica (A. Moreira-Soto); Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima (E. Málaga-Trillo); Laboratorio de Refencia Regional en Salud Publica, Loreto, Peru (M. Gatty-Nogueira); German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin (J.F. Drexler)

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Figure 1

Geographic location of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus–positive case from study of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Peruvian Amazon, 2020. Red dot shows location of case for which metadata were available; green dot represents Iquitos, capital of the department of Loreto. Inset map shows location of Peru in South America and of Loreto department. All maps were created using QGIS 3.36.0 based on freely available maps from Bucknell University (https://hub.arcgis.com) and Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática, Peru (https://ide.inei.gob.pe/#capas).

Figure 1. Geographic location of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus–positive case from study of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Peruvian Amazon, 2020. Red dot shows location of case for which metadata were available; green dot represents Iquitos, capital of the department of Loreto. Inset map shows location of Peru in South America and of Loreto department. All maps were created using QGIS 3.36.0 based on freely available maps from Bucknell University (https://hub.arcgis.com) and Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática, Peru (https://ide.inei.gob.pe/#capas).

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