Forwarded by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Forwarded by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
CDC Health Advisory:
Recent Reports of Human Parechovirus (PeV) in the United States - 2022
July 12, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued a Health Advisory today to inform clinicians and public health departments that parechovirus (PeV) is currently circulating in the United States. Since May 2022, CDC has received reports from healthcare providers in multiple states of PeV infections in neonates and young infants.
Parechoviruses are a group of viruses known to cause a spectrum of disease in humans. Clinicians are encouraged to include PeV in the differential diagnoses of infants presenting with fever, sepsis-like syndrome, or neurologic illness (seizures, meningitis) without another known cause and to test for PeV in children with signs and symptoms compatible with PeV infection.
Providers should report confirmed cases of PeV within 1 working day.
  • Los Angeles County DPH Acute Communicable Disease Control:
    Fax a CMR to 888-397-3778 or 213-482-5508 or call 888-397-3993.
    For consultation call 213-240-7941.

  • Long Beach Health and Human Services:
    Fax a CMR to 562-570-4374 or call 562-570-4302.
     
  • Pasadena Public Health Department:
    Fax a CMR to 626-744-6115 or call 626-744-6089.
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