O'nyong-nyong fever is an infectious disease caused by O'nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes. ONNV was first isolated in 1959 in Uganda.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D42 O'nyong-nyong fever
H01545 O'nyong-nyong fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
H01545 O'nyong-nyong fever