The mosquitoes have also been associated with Western equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis and California encephalitis.
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There are over 15 known types of autoimmune encephalitis, according to the Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance.
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It has also tested positive for Zika, West Nile, Eastern equine encephalitis and Japanese encephalitis.
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Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis outbreaks are common in India, especially during the monsoon season, and claim hundreds of lives.
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The other two species are Anopheles, which carries malaria, elephantiasis and encephalitis and Culex which carries encephalitis, elephantiasis and West Nile virus.
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Encephalitis suggests an infectious agent, and the disease is similar to Japanese encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease also prevalent in east India.
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Roy Cooper said flooding has increased the population of mosquitoes, which can bring illnesses such as encephalitis, West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis.
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AFM has also been liked to West Nile virus and other viruses in that family, according to the CDC; in particular, Japanese encephalitis and Saint Louis encephalitis.
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AFM has also been liked to West Nile virus and other viruses in that family, according to the CDC: in particular, Japanese encephalitis and St. Louis encephalitis.
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Or worse, encephalitis — an inflammation of the brain itself.
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People may have either the respiratory infection, encephalitis, or both.
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Symptoms include a rash, mild fever and encephalitis, brain inflammation.
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Other viruses in this group include the La Crosse encephalitis virus and California encephalitis virus, which can cause inflammation of the brain that can be potentially life-threatening — although most people have no apparent symptoms.
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Eastern Equine Encephalitis A rare, mosquito-borne virus continues to threaten parts of the northeastern US. A fourth person has died in Michigan after contracting Eastern Equine Encephalitis, bringing the nationwide total to 11 deaths.
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Encephalopathy, or brain disease or damage, can be caused by encephalitis.
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It can also cause encephalitis and meningitis, according to the CDC.
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Brahamdev Yadav, a rice farmer, had never heard of Japanese encephalitis.
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She had suffered from alcohol encephalitis and cirrhosis of the liver.
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One example where something similar to this happens is autoimmune encephalitis.
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Alex Jones suffering from encephalitis in a panic room they are not.
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More recently, drugmakers have successfully developed shots against Japanese encephalitis and dengue.
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Measles can also cause blindness and encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
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Philippe, who had encephalitis, talked over and over about the same things.
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Other possible complications of shingles include pneumonia, hearing problems, blindness and encephalitis.
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Encephalitis outbreaks kill hundreds in India every year, especially during the monsoon season.
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But other viruses in the Herpesviridae family can cause encephalitis or even cancer.
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"A kid came down with an unspecified encephalitis," or brain inflammation, Lyons explained.
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Measles can be serious and cause severe complications such as pneumonia or encephalitis.
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"Everybody was cheering that we had a diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis," Gavigan said.
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Sometimes, this is followed by dizziness, drowsiness, altered consciousness and signs of encephalitis.
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In severe cases, pneumonia and encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, can develop.
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Other threats include West Nile virus, dengue fever and various types of encephalitis.
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The committee will also discuss vaccines for human papillomavirus, Japanese encephalitis and influenza.
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Pneumonia and encephalitis — swelling of the brain — are the most common severe complications.
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"Encephalitis deaths have come down to less than five per day," he said.
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And eastern equine encephalitis killed 15 of the 38 people diagnosed this year.
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Pre-vaccine, measles was the cause of deafness, encephalitis or death for some children.
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The disease can cause severe health complications including pneumonia, encephalitis (brain swelling), and death.
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But confabulation can occur from syphilis, encephalitis, brain tumors, hypoxia, schizophrenia, dementia, and more.
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Ticks can pass on illnesses like Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) or tick-borne encephalitis.
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And about 1,000 of those children suffered encephalitis, a dangerous swelling of the brain.
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Measles is a viral disease that can lead to complications including pneumonia and encephalitis.
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It can cause encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, the World Health Organization says.
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Another 32 patients had other neurological disorders, including encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, myelitis and facial paralysis.
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The cause was viral encephalitis, Paul Turlish, her brother and only immediate survivor, said.
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Tests ordered by that patient's neurologist had allowed Hersch to diagnose an autoimmune encephalitis.
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She was diagnosed with encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, a complication of measles.
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Eastern equine encephalitis is a rare but potentially fatal illness caused by mosquito bites.
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She died after becoming ill with the flu and developing encephalitis, a brain inflammation.
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Oh, and they're also prone to an inherited brain disorder known as pug dog encephalitis.
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Of those, 400 to 500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 4,000 developed encephalitis from measles.
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Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus is an infection that causes no symptoms in most people.
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No cases of encephalitis or deaths have been reported in the United States this year.
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One out of twenty will get pneumonia, and 28503 out of 22019,000 will get encephalitis.
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Doctors listed their causes of death as "nervous exhaustion," encephalitis and even schizophrenia, he said.
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Internet users savaged Huawei after a 25-year-old employee died of encephalitis in 2006.
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Nipah virus, which causes encephalitis and pneumonia, is lethal in about 70 percent of cases.
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Japanese encephalitis has no known cure, and as it progresses, patients require oxygen to survive.
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A Michigan farmer has died after contracting the mosquito-borne virus Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).
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Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is a rare but potentially fatal illness caused by mosquito bites.
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Mr. Stanczak survived pneumonia, encephalitis and near starvation, but overwork permanently incapacitated his right arm.
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The Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, seen above infecting cells in the central nervous system.
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Ms. Hall contracted herpes from the assault, which led to a meningitis and encephalitis infection.
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In 2013, at least 351 people died of encephalitis in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
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About 2550 to 2100 people died, 22000,2300 were hospitalized and 9403,2940 suffered encephalitis, or brain swelling.
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Rates of Guillain-Barré and encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis showed a similar increase in the Northeast.
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Other diseases that have hit Florida include the West Nile virus and two types of encephalitis.
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The disease was given a name in 63: anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, or NMDARE for short.
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Vaccines already exist for some of these viruses, such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and dengue.
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It can develop into severe encephalitis or brain swelling that can cause tremors, seizures and paralysis.
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By Tyehimba Jess (College of Staten Island) John William "Blind" Boone caught encephalitis at six months.
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Measles can lead to severe complications, such as pneumonia, encephalitis -- swelling of the brain -- and death.
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It can develop into severe encephalitis or brain swelling which can cause tremors, seizures and paralysis.
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Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain, caused by any one of a number of viruses.
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Sophia Garabedian was hospitalized early last month with Eastern equine encephalitis, which can cause deadly brain swelling.
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Rarely, it can cause a serious infection of the brain and spinal cord called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
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About 1 out of every 272,2000 children who gets measles will develop encephalitis, according to the CDC.
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She later learned that the patient, a young woman, had tested positive for autoimmune encephalitis — Cahalan's disease.
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In the most severe cases, encephalitis and seizures will progress to coma within 24 to 19983 hours.
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In the most severe cases, encephalitis and seizures will progress to coma within 24 to 48 hours.
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"Chickenpox can cause pneumonia, it can cause secondary skin infections, it can cause encephalitis," Dr. Smith said.
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About 1 out of every 1,000 children who gets measles will develop encephalitis, according to the CDC.
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Tick-borne encephalitis was found in the UK for the first time, according to an October study.
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Acute encephalitis syndrome causes inflammation of the brain, resulting in fever, delirium and eventually coma in most cases.
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Outbreaks of encephalitis are common every year in India, claiming hundreds of lives, especially during the monsoon season.
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Other mosquito-borne viruses that have appeared in Hawaii include encephalitis, malaria, West Nile virus, and yellow fever.
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The Eastern equine encephalitis virus (in red) seen magnified in the salivary gland tissue of an infected mosquito.
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The children were suffering from acute encephalitis syndrome, also known as AES, according to India's Ministry of Health.
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And those infected with oral herpes are at an increased risk for encephalitis (brain inflammation) and eye disease.
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Fatal 15 percent of the time, encephalitis is the most common cause of death in adult measles cases.
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Often known as "brain fever", encephalitis causes high fever, vomiting and, in severe cases, seizures, paralysis and coma.
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A charity organization has warned rugby fans about a potentially deadly viral brain infection known as Japanese encephalitis.
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Scientists call it acute encephalopathy syndrome, or A.E.S., while Indian officials insist on calling it acute encephalitis syndrome.
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Complications from the virus — including deafness, sterility, and encephalitis or meningitis (swelling of the brain) — can be devastating.
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Ms. Payton had the H1N1 flu, also known as the swine flu, and encephalitis, according to her family.
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The virus can also reach the brain, leading to encephalitis, and can cause blindness by blistering the eyeballs.
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His death, at a hospital, was caused by pneumonia and autoimmune encephalitis, his wife, Dee Dee Halleck, said.
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"When I was a child, when the mumps vaccination wasn't there, I ended up with encephalitis," said Gawande.
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Complications like diarrhea, ear infection, pneumonia and encephalitis can lead to permanent hearing loss, brain damage or death.
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Some children develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain), which can lead to convulsions, loss of hearing, and intellectual disabilities.
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Complications from measles include encephalitis or swelling of the brain, severe dehydration due to diarrhea, blindness, pneumonia, and death.
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She pulls through, but Joanna's unvaccinated friend suffers from a measles complication called encephalitis that gives her brain damage.
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The virus can lead to inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), which can cause confusion, seizures, coma, or even death.
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If left untreated, the POW virus can spread to the central nervous system and lead to encephalitis or meningitis.
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While most people recover from measles without complications, the virus can cause encephalitis, meningitis, pneumonia, liver infection and death.
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It has an average fatality of around 75 percent, and symptoms include body aches, fever, vomiting and even encephalitis.
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After complaining of a headache, Noah Surrett of Asheville, North Carolina, came down with La Crosse encephalitis, WLOS reports.
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Yellow fever is spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which also carry Zika, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis and other diseases.
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Hagan had battled with encephalitis or inflammation of the brain for about three years after suffering a tick bite.
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They transmit diseases including Lyme disease, human anaplasmosis, human ehrlichiosis, human babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Powassan encephalitis.
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People in the state were also at threat from Japanese encephalitis, a mosquito-borne viral infection, government officials said.
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WS: You can get complications of mumps: encephalitis, inflammation of the brain; meningitis, inflammation of tissues covering the brain.
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The vaccine prevented hundreds of millions of smallpox cases, although it sometimes caused fatal encephalitis and other serious complications.
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Hagan, who served one term between 2008 and 2014, died of encephalitis, or brain inflammation, caused by Powassan virus.
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Some suffer complications such as blindness, encephalitis (brain swelling caused by infection), severe diarrhea, dehydration, ear infections and pneumonia.
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Several months after making this diagnosis, Hersch ran into the widow of the patient who died of autoimmune encephalitis.
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Some children develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain), which can lead to convulsions, loss of hearing, and mental retardation.
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"The larger this outbreak gets, the more rare complications like encephalitis, seizures, deaths we're going to see," he said.
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And the mosquitoes are causing other problems besides dengue in Kaski, he said, including cases of malaria and encephalitis.
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For instance, measles can cause life-threatening complications such as encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) or other fatal infections.
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There's also a sense that if you get this mumps/encephalitis/meningitis, you can be left with hearing loss afterward.
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Eight people have died from a rare virus called Eastern equine encephalitis, which is spread to people by infected mosquitoes.
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Malaria alone—not to mention yellow fever, dengue fever, chikungunya, and several types of encephalitis—has killed billions of people.
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It took nine months for doctors to diagnose the disease: autoimmune encephalitis, in which the autoimmune system attacks the brain.
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In third grade, she was diagnosed with the extremely rare disease Rasmussen's encephalitis, which was destined to progress if left untreated.
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The disease can cause hearing loss and, in rare cases, five to ten years later, a usually fatal form of encephalitis.
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Most measles-related deaths result from complications associated with the illness, like encephalitis, a condition that can cause fatal brain-swelling.
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But since 2013, CDC officials have recommended miltefosine as a treatment for PAM and a related condition called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
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By 2016, a doctor suspected he could have had autoimmune encephalitis, a condition where the body's immune cells attack the brain.
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For example, some people with West Nile virus infections can develop a severe form of the disease called West Nile encephalitis.
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Encephalitis (swelling of the brain), as is the case of the flight attendant, occurs in one out of 1,85003 measles cases.
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Some 450 patients suffering from encephalitis were admitted on Saturday alone, of whom 200 were children under 12, hospital records showed.
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Encephalitis is among the rarer side effects of measles, an otherwise preventable respiratory virus that's extremely contagious and can turn deadly.
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The highly contagious disease can lead to complications including pneumonia and encephalitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Will the child show up at the hospital with measles encephalitis and end up with permanent brain damage or even die?
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Over the weekend, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported that a local resident contracted the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus.
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Seven patients in Germany and one in Spain presented with encephalitis and or meningoencephalitis, which are both inflammation of the brain.
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Patricia Shaw, a 77-year-old Connecticut woman, died last week from Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), a rare mosquito-linked illness.
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Like in Susannah Cahalan's memoir, Brain On Fire, autoimmune encephalitis can severely compromise mental health and look a lot like psychosis.
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State lawmakers have noted that the river is believed to carry pathogens that cause tuberculosis, encephalitis, polio, cholera, hepatitis, and typhoid.
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One in 19653 children with measles develops pneumonia and one in 1,000 develops encephalitis (brain swelling that can cause brain damage).
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Highly contagious, measles can lead to serious complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Since then, the Zika virus had been considered mild compared to its killer cousins: yellow fever, dengue, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis.
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Pugs are known to be at greater risk of certain brain disorders tied to a genetic cause, such as pug dog encephalitis.
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The fatal diagnosis is acute encephalitis, a neurological disease caused by either a virus or environmental toxins connected to the lychee fruit.
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The 43-year-old woman has encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, a well-known and potentially deadly complication of the virus.
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About 12 out of every 297,13 children who gets measles will develop encephalitis or swelling of the brain, according to the CDC.
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Health experts have long been dumbfounded by the root of the encephalitis outbreak, commonly known as brain fever, in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district.
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But Keystone virus is one of a group of viruses that are known to lead to encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
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Approximately 2023,000 cases were reported annually to the CDC, resulting in nearly 50,000 hospitalizations, 21625,2900 encephalitis cases, and 220006 to 2202 deaths.
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He was coming out of a long despair triggered by the death of his 7-year-old daughter, Olivia, from measles encephalitis.
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Cases of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a rare virus that causes brain inflammation, have been recorded in each of the three states.
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I went to a travel clinic to get all the vaccinations I might need (and dang was the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine expensive).
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I didn't want to have to clean drool stains and dog hair every day, or to worry about hip dysplasia or encephalitis.
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A third person has died in the United States this year after contracting the rare mosquito-borne illness, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE).
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Savannah DeHart, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, or EEE, a virus spread by mosquitos that causes brain infections.
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Since Monday, a total of 60 children have died at the hospital, many from acute encephalitis and others in the neonatal unit.
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Two Mexican gray wolf pups have died from Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), the Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, Michigan, announced Wednesday.
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She notes, for example, that the risk of getting encephalitis from the measles is about 1,000 times greater than from the vaccine.
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It even seemed to be safer than a live-virus vaccine for Japanese encephalitis, another mosquito-borne virus that goes after the brain.
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We should anticipate that viruses such as Venezuelan equine encephalitis may spread from their jungle homes and be even more deadly than Zika.
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Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine unit of Sanofi, already has several vaccines approved for others flaviviruses, such as yellow fever, dengue and Japanese encephalitis.
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Severe forms can cause swelling in the brain, called encephalitis, or in the membranes around the brain and the spinal cord, called meningitis.
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Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine unit of Sanofi, already has several vaccines approved for others flaviviruses, such as yellow fever, dengue, and Japanese encephalitis.
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But it's not just Zika or dengue — other mosquito-borne illnesses, including Chikungunya, West Nile, and Japanese encephalitis virus are gaining ground, too.
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Most people who survive acute encephalitis brought on by Nipah virus make a full recovery, but some patients report long-term neurological conditions.
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A 64-year old Michigan resident died in August from a virus called eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, which is spread by mosquitos.
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Fueling that suspicion are recent discoveries of serious brain and spinal cord infections - including encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis - in people exposed to Zika.
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In 2011, two people in Louisiana died of encephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri, another amoeba found in fresh water that attacks brain tissue.
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Of the roughly 500,000 cases that were reported to medical authorities, about 48,000 were hospitalized, 4,000 developed encephalitis, and 400 to 500 died.
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There is no vaccine for the virus which can cause encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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But in each of three years - 2002, 2003 and 2012 - about 3,000 people suffered brain-damaging meningitis or encephalitis, and almost 300 died.
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Children are particularly susceptible to the disease, with some infections leading to complications such as pneumonia or encephalitis, a swelling of the brain.
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Health authorities in the state of Bihar said Thursday that 47 children have died of acute encephalitis syndrome, which involves inflammation of the brain.
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The BRD Medical College specified that 34 were babies who died at the neo-natal intensive care unit, while 12 died because of encephalitis.
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The U.S. has seen a dramatic increase in the number of Eastern equine encephalitis cases, and we're exploring some of the possible reasons why.
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"There's Japanese encephalitis here," he said, offering the tube to Shockie and savoring the name of the disease: He had once been a compounder.
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Compared with adults, small children generally have worse outcomes for some of the infections vaccinations prevent, developing secondary conditions such as pneumonia and encephalitis.
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Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, then, happens when an otherwise healthy person's immune system makes a mistake, and starts making antibodies that affect this receptor.
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Children who are malnourished and people with weakened immune systems are more like to experience serious complications including encephalitis, severe diarrhea and ear infections.
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Most people no longer remember the dangers of this infectious disease, which can lead to pneumonia, encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, and death.
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Other symptoms include acute respiratory syndrome -- where the lungs cannot get enough oxygen to the body -- and fatal encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
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Most people who survive acute encephalitis brought on by Nipah virus make a full recovery, but some former patients report long-term neurologic conditions.
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At least a dozen cases of eastern equine encephalitis, a dangerous mosquito-borne illness, have been confirmed across the U.S. so far this season.
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About one recipient in 100,000 suffers a dangerous reaction like jaundice, hepatitis or encephalitis, Dr. Marques said, and about one in a million dies.
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A sample of mosquitoes from Washington Township, New Jersey, tested positive for West Nile Virus and Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), according to local officials.
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Rift Valley fever, Japanese encephalitis, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and many others lie in wait, and they are less remote than most Americans realize.
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As of September 12, 130 people who had measles this year were hospitalized and 65 had complications including pneumonia and encephalitis, the CDC said.
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Nipah causes deadly encephalitis and pneumonia; it circulates in Asian fruit bats and is also caught from pigs that eat fruit gnawed by bats.
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A Nipah infection can show zero symptoms, or it can cause fatal encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), with a range of possible wide spread complications.
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Children under the age of 5 — and especially those under 28 — are considered particularly vulnerable to serious flu-related complications, such as pneumonia or encephalitis.
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Other blood-feeding insects — such as mosquitoes and ticks — spread a host of devastating diseases: malaria, sleeping sickness, Lyme, babesiosis, Zika, dengue, encephalitis and others.
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Her husband, Charles T. Hagan III, said she died of complications of a type of encephalitis, or brain inflammation, caused by the rare Powassan virus.
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She received a diagnosis of encephalitis, but because the Powassan virus is seen so rarely, it took doctors more than two months to identify it.
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The infection types they considered included: maternal infections, urinary tract inflections (UTIs) and severe infections, like sepsis, meningitis or encephalitis, pneumonia, influenza, pyelonephritis or chorioamnionitis.
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Noah underwent blood tests, a CT scan, a chest X-ray and a spinal tap, which revealed that he was suffering from La Crosse encephalitis.
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More severe symptoms include acute respiratory syndrome -- where the lungs cannot get enough oxygen to the body -- and fatal encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
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The explanation for the Salem Witch trials range from fungus poisoning or undiagnosed encephalitis lethargica causing hysteria, fear of strong women, or competition between families.
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She had been in a coma for months after being hospitalized with encephalitis, or severe brain swelling, in April, according to the Times of Israel.
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The hospital is in a part of India that is heavily hit by deadly mosquito-borne diseases like Japanese encephalitis at this time of year.
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Meanwhile, the CDC says 31 states reported 1,243 individual patients, 131 of whom were hospitalized and 65 of whom suffered complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis.
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A boy in Queens suggested that the city could stop the spread of mosquitoes that carry encephalitis by releasing thousands of spiders around the city.
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And as soon as I saw him I had to fix the liver failure, I had to try and clear the encephalitis, which was killing him.
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The company said its Sanofi Pasteur vaccines division would use its expertise in developing vaccines for similar viruses such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and dengue.
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There are times your veterinarian might find clinical evidence of something like a brain tumor or encephalitis, and refer you to a veterinary neurologist like myself.
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According to the WHO, the virus that can lead to deadly complications like diarrhea, dehydration, respiratory infection and encephalitis kills an estimated 314 people every day.
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While the aegypti transmits the viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya and now Zika, her sister species, the Culex quinquefasciatus, carries West Nile and encephalitis.
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Other symptoms may include acute respiratory syndrome -- in which the lungs cannot get enough oxygen to the body -- and fatal encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain.
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Sanofi is developing another Zika vaccine based on its own know-how in battling established mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, Japanese encephalitis and yellow fever.
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While people who are born with both copies of CCR₅ disabled are resistant to H.I.V., they are more susceptible to West Nile virus and Japanese encephalitis.
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Of the roughly 22019,1957 cases that were reported to medical authorities annually back then, about 229,2659 were hospitalized, 22018,000 developed encephalitis, and 400 to 500 died.
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In his book "Awakenings," Oliver Sacks wrote about a group of patients who, having had encephalitis decades before, had been locked into a near-paralyzed catatonia.
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In the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s, St. Louis encephalitis, a related virus, surged, "and it looked like climate issues were involved," Dr. Reiter said.
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Photo: Darren McCollester (Getty Images)Over the weekend, health officials in several states reported more cases and deaths linked to the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus.
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Measles causes encephalitis and pneumonia and before mass vaccination began in the 22000s, measles killed nearly 2.6 million people a year, according to the World Health Organization.
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"I suspect there's a lot of Nipah in India that goes unreported because many cases are sporadic and not all of them lead to encephalitis," Luby said.
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As a veterinary neurologist-neurosurgeon, I see dogs with problems like brain tumors or encephalitis that would cause pain or headache in human patients all the time.
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There is no vaccine for the virus, which is spread through bodily fluids and can cause encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, the World Health Organization says.
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Since then, it has spread to 26 states and can carry diseases deadly to both humans and animals, including West Nile virus, Zika, encephalitis, and dengue fever.
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Forty-six-year-old Ellis died weeks later, and although his cause of death was listed as viral encephalitis, it was clear he'd been ill with AIDS.
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Some people experience inflammation of the brain (called encephalitis), sores on the surface of the eye (called corneal ulceration) and blindness, all considered complications of the virus.
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Both measles and chickenpox can stay latent in the human body for years, only to re-emerge as debilitating neurological diseases like encephalitis and shingles decades later.
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Pools of standing or stagnant water also make an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes, increasing the risk of encephalitis, West Nile Virus, and other mosquito-borne diseases.
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Why have we been able to develop vaccines for other mosquito-borne illnesses like Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, and maybe soon dengue and Zika, but not malaria?
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In Connecticut, in addition to the death of the first person diagnosed this year, health officials announced a second person has tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis.
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Treatment for any form of encephalitis is "immediate, aggressive" medical intervention including antibiotics that can cross the blood-brain barrier, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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But it can take hold rapidly and cause encephalitis, deafness and in extreme cases, death, especially when a patient is malnourished or has a weakened immune system.
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Image: Dr. Fred Murphy; Sylvia Whitfield (CDC) On Monday, Rhode Island health officials reported that a resident had died after contracting the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus.
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Measles, a respiratory disease characterized by a rash of flat red spots, can lead to severe complications such as pneumonia, encephalitis -- swelling of the brain -- and death.
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More common complications include encephalitis, which can cause brain damage in about one in 1,500 measles cases, and pneumonia, which occurs in about one in 16 cases.
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Nipah can cause a respiratory infection that leads to pneumonia, or it can cause inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), which may lead to seizures, a coma, or death.
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Although there is a sentiment that the illness is just a rash and fever that pass, complications can include encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, pneumonia and death.
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Because the initial symptoms could be attributed to the flu, or later on, mental health problems, anti-NDMA receptor encephalitis can be hard to pin down at first.
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According to a public advisory issued this month by the Florida Department of Health in Orange County, the Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) was found in the state.
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In the past, between 14 and 52 people per 1 million vaccinated experienced potentially life-threatening reactions, including eczema vaccinatum, progressive vaccinia (or vaccinia necrosum), or postvaccinal encephalitis.
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Thousands and thousands of cases Dr. Belinda Lennox, a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Oxford, believes that we should be testing for autoimmune encephalitis more routinely.
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There is no vaccine for the virus, which is spread through body fluids and can cause encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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Infection with Nipah virus can cause no symptoms, or it can cause fatal encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), with a range of possible illnesses between those two extremes.
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Their third son, Brannon, born in 22005, suffered from a brain disease called Rasmussen's encephalitis, which caused him to have as many as three hundred seizures a day.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the virus can lead to deadly complications like diarrhea, dehydration, respiratory infection and encephalitis and kills nearly 400 children every day.
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Nipah can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain) as well as pulmonary disease, which, by inducing coughs, increases the chance of person-to-person spread.
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In addition to autoimmune disease, some researchers also have reported patients with Zika infections developing encephalitis and myelitis - nerve disorders typically caused by direct infections in nerve cells.
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While a new Japanese encephalitis wing is state of the art, with its plate glass windows and beeping machines, other parts of the hospital are in chaotic disrepair.
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Though it was unclear at the time of his death, doctors confirmed several days later that Gregg, 64, was infected with Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), WOOD-TV reports.
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" It quotes an unnamed "former Merck representative" saying the HPV vaccine can cause "Guillain-Barré syndrome, paralysis of the lower limbs, vaccine-induced MS, and vaccine-induced encephalitis.
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The virus causes encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, and it kills about 10% of people who become sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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About half of those who survive the POW virus will have permanent neurological problems, and 10% of the encephalitis cases caused by POW are fatal, according to the CDC.
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There is no vaccine for the Nipah virus, which is spread through body fluids and can cause encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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The woman, 43, is suffering from the measles-related complication of encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, according to Eyal Basson, a spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Health.
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A Massachusetts woman has died of a rare mosquito-borne illness — eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE — becoming the fourth person in the state to contract the disease in August.
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Several teams have published papers showing that in some patients, Zika can cause serious brain and spinal cord infections - including encephalitis, meningitis and myelitis - in people exposed to Zika.
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Meanwhile, Michigan has recorded seven cases in "its worst Eastern Equine Encephalitis outbreak in more than a decade," according to Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the state's chief deputy for health.
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The teen was expressing only mild symptoms and was not reporting any symptoms of encephalitis, but after conducting viral cultures, researchers discovered that the boy had contracted the Keystone virus.
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Hagan's family did not identify a cause of death, but Hagan was diagnosed with Powassan virus, a form of encephalitis that kills in about 10 percent of cases, in 2016.
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Retired virologist T. Jacob John also raised the possibility that encephalitis cases in Muzaffarpur could be associated with lychees in a 2014 study published by Indian science journal Current Science.
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The sale of anti-rabies treatment Rabipur and Encepur, used for the prevention of tick-borne encephalitis, by the British drugmaker includes milestone payments of up to 495 million euros.
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A majority of the children who died had been struck by Japanese encephalitis, a mosquito-borne, potentially fatal viral brain infection that periodically ravages the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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But a year later, there was a surge in dangerous "neuroinvasive" West Nile disease in the affected regions of Louisiana and Mississippi: Cases of encephalitis and meningitis more than doubled.
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Fauci said that to develop these platforms scientists must first study entire classes of viruses, such as the flaviviruses, which include Japanese encephalitis, Yellow fever, Zika, and West Nile virus.
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"We've already had a child hospitalized; I hope it doesn't take a death or a real serious complication like encephalitis for people to change their minds," about vaccination, he said.
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In another recent case, an Israeli flight attendant has been unable to breathe on her own after experiencing a dire complication of measles: inflammation and swelling of the brain, called encephalitis.
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The French drugmaker said on Tuesday its Sanofi Pasteur vaccines division would use its expertise in developing vaccines for similar viruses such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and, most recently, dengue.
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Complications are rare, but if the virus spreads from the intestines to the central nervous system, a patient can get viral meningitis or viral encephalitis, with confusion and seizures and coma.
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Five hours later, Soni was dead, one of more than 100 children to die this month from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), or 'brain fever', in one district of eastern Bihar state.
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What if I were McDonald's and 80 percent of the beef I was serving before the election day was fake beef, and people ended up getting encephalitis and making bad decisions?
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nearly 100 children have died this month from encephalitis, commonly known as brain fever, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a state health official said on Monday.
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Most children who get chickenpox won't develop a serious illness, Mullendore noted, but the infection can cause serious complications such as skin infections, pneumonia, swelling of the brain (encephalitis), or bloodstream infections.
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Hospital officials deny lack of oxygen caused the deaths, saying alternative supplies were found, and blamed many of the deaths instead on encephalitis and unspecified issues related to delivery of the infants.
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Hagan, who lost her Senate seat in 2014 to Tillis and served one term, was diagnosed two years later with Powassan virus, a type of encephalitis linked to tick bites (NBC News).
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Rising global temperatures have also impacted the way that disease is spread, causing greater outbreaks of infectious diseases like: malaria, dengue fever, cholera, tick-born encephalitis, and West Nile virus, Time reports.
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The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that a person in the southern part of the state had Powassan encephalitis, a severe disease that causes inflammation in the brain.
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Of those who survive, 50 percent experience permanent brain injury and SFTS virus (severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome), which causes encephalitis and severe fever with thrombocytopenia, a shortage of blood clotting platelets.
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Out of those patients, 48,000 were hospitalized, 400 to 500 died and 1,85033 suffered from a severe complication known as encephalitis, a condition in which the brain swells because of an infection.
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Two Mexican gray wolf pups died this month of eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, a deadly virus spread by mosquitoes that can cause brain swelling, convulsions and fever in humans and animals.
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Officials said that the children who died in August did so from a variety of ailments, particularly mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis, which hits the area hard every year during the rainy season.
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Since most Americans get measles vaccinations as a child, usually only unvaccinated children are at risk of getting the virus, which can lead to serious complications like encephalitis (brain swelling) and pneumonia.
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"Michigan is currently experiencing its worst Eastern Equine Encephalitis outbreak in more than a decade," Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the department's chief medical executive and chief deputy for health, said in a release.
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Karlovic has remained a factor by overcoming a major Achilles' tendon injury in 21 and encephalitis in 216, which caused debilitating headaches and left him temporarily without feeling in his right arm.
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The French company has taken pole position among major drugmakers in Zika vaccine research, reflecting its expertise in developing shots against other so-called flaviviruses, such as yellow fever, dengue and Japanese encephalitis.
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Hundreds of people die each year in India of encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease common during the monsoon season, and no medical official directly linked the recent deaths to a lack of oxygen.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thirty children have died at a hospital in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh since Wednesday due to encephalitis and delivery-related issues, a senior medical official said on Friday.
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A doctor gave us hope at one point when she opined that mom had autoimmune encephalitis, a condition in which her immune system was attacking her brain -- an illness that can be treated.
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Many were sick with Japanese encephalitis and other tropical diseases and may have died from other causes, but doctors admitted that the oxygen interruption is likely to have claimed at least several lives.
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"Michigan is currently experiencing its worst Eastern Equine Encephalitis outbreak in more than a decade," Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the department's chief medical executive and chief deputy for health, said in a news release.
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Sophia Garabedian, a 5-year-old girl from the Massachusetts town of Sudbury, was hospitalized in early September after contracting Eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne illness that can cause deadly brain swelling.
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Heat, humidity, malnourishment, the monsoon and pesticides have all been considered at one stage to be contributing factors to the illness -- said to resemble encephalitis symptomatically, a disease that causes inflammation of the brain.
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Acute encephalitis syndrome has spread across a few districts in India, focused in pockets in the poorer states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, which also have some of the country's hottest summers.
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In 2009, Dr. Weaver was a co-author of a paper that foresaw the emergence of Zika virus in the Americas, although he envisioned Japanese encephalitis and Rift Valley fever as the greatest threats.
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There have been some victories against mosquitoes, thanks to insecticide-treated bed nets and vaccines against viruses like yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis, as well as a new one for dengue approved in December.
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A CDC spokesperson tells Axios that among reported cases, an estimated 400 to 500 people died annually prior to widespread vaccination, 48,000 were hospitalized and 1,000 suffered encephalitis (swelling of the brain) from measles.
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The patients died from encephalitis, a disease which causes brain inflammation, after the hospital in Gorakhpur ran out of oxygen due to unpaid bills, triggering outrage over India's poorly managed state-run healthcare system.
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"If there's increased transmission of mosquito-borne diseases [after the hurricanes], it'll be from West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis," explained Duane Gubler, an expert on mosquito-borne diseases with Duke-NUS Medical School.
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It is the rainy season in India, when officials say it is not unusual for as many as 10 children to die in the hospital every day from Japanese encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease.
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Italy's cabinet last week approved a law obliging parents to vaccinate their children against infectious diseases as politicians spar over a spike in cases of measles, possible complications of which include blindness and encephalitis.
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Dr. Smith said that aggressive campaigns to vaccinate for Japanese encephalitis, a virus found in Asia and the Western Pacific, may have had an effect on Zika, but that premise had yet to be investigated.
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There were close to 50,000 hospitalizations every year for measles, and we had about 4,000 people who had measles encephalitis, which is a swelling of the brain that can lead to permanent damage, including deafness.
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They get some veterinary conditions that in human disorders are associated with headaches: Some breeds are predisposed to encephalitis, which would cause something like that; they get tumors, they get sinus infections, they have swelling.
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That's because in many of his cases, confabulation isn't the result of a progressive disease (though it can be a component of one) but a result of traumatic brain injury, like aneurysm rupture, or encephalitis.
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It can cause meningitis (inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord) or encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), and it can also cause inflammation of the heart muscle, a condition known as miocarditis.
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Now, the culprit has been identified as the mosquito-borne virus eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, a life-threatening infection that has sickened nearly 30 people across the U.S., as well as dozens of horses.
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Public health officials on Wednesday declared the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus to be an "emergent threat" in the U.S. after an unusually high number of cases have occurred so far this year.
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Now the new CDC report sheds light on just how much these diseases are growing in the US. 'We don't know what will threaten Americans next' The new report, based on data from the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System each year between 2004 and 2016, identified 22012 different diseases: Lyme disease, anaplasmosis/ehrlichiosis, spotted fever rickettsiosis, babesiosis, tularemia, Powassan virus, Dengue viruses, Zika virus, West Nile virus, malaria, chikungunya virus, California serogroup viruses, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, yellow fever virus, and plague.
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Pneumonia, encephalitis (swelling and inflammation of the brain) and even death are potential consequences of measles that I fear people don't realize, because we have largely eliminated the disease and we don't encounter it that often.
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So many human diseases are known to have come from bats, including Ebola, Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Nipah virus encephalitis, Hendra virus disease, Histoplasmosis (a disease of the lungs) and severe acute respiratory syndrome, among many others.
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The link to the fruit, however, is inconclusive, said Alok Ghosh, the Muzaffarpur district magistrate, who said that in about half of the more than 400 known cases of encephalitis, the children had not consumed lychees.
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In fact, the Asian Tiger mosquito has only been here for about thirty years—it stowed away in shipping containers from Southeast Asia—and now it's responsible for instances of dengue fever, dog heartworm, and encephalitis.
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Since then, 250 more have been confirmed dead, including up to four on Monday, according to Dr. Kafeel Khan, the former head of the encephalitis ward who was relieved of his role on Sunday August 13.
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Instead, as she recounted in "Brain on Fire," her best-selling 2012 memoir about her ordeal, she was eventually found to have a rare — or at least newly discovered — neurological disease: anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis.
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Separately, health authorities in Michigan, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey have warned residents to protect themselves against mosquitoes after Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare virus, has killed at least five people this year. 5.
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The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research scientists are recruiting 75 healthy adult volunteers who have never been infected with a related virus, including yellow fever, dengue, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis, to participate in the trial.
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Valneva said its facility in Lyon, central France, had succeeded in generating a "highly purified inactivated vaccine candidate" using the same platform as the company's Japanese encephalitis vaccine which is marketed in the United States and Europe.
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Because the disease is closely related to yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis, for which there are vaccines, experts think that making one should not prove as difficult as, for example, vaccines against H.I.V. and malaria have proven.
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"We took a playbook we had run before and applied it to the nuances of Zika," Thomas said, noting that the new Zika vaccine candidate is similar to the institute's licensed vaccine for another flavivirus, Japanese encephalitis.
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It said large outbreaks of measles continue to occur in those countries as well as others in Europe and North America, putting children at risk of severe health complications such as pneumonia, diarrhea, encephalitis, blindness, and death.
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Before the measles vaccine was introduced in the early 1960s, an estimated 400 to 500 people in the United States died of the disease each year, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 1,000 developed encephalitis, according to the CDC.
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Until she died of encephalitis in 2015, Jordan worked as a women's rights activist, supporting a helpline against domestic and sexual violence, while juggling her work, court appearances, and looking after her young daughters and their pet cat.
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That being said, young women aren't the only ones who suffer from anti-NDMA receptor encephalitis — men and boys and anyone without ovarian tumors can also get it, though Dr. Lancaster says that doctors aren't 100% certain why.
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MUZAFFARPUR, India (Reuters) - More than 110 children in India, most from poor rural families, have died this month from encephalitis, a type of brain disease that has afflicted the eastern state of Bihar for more than two decades.
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The Maine CDC issued an advisory to physicians that more cases could be possible and suggested that doctors consider testing for the disease in patients with unexplained encephalitis, meningitis or high fever during the summer and early fall.
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Shukla said at least 10 of the children at BRD Medical College had died because of encephalitis, a disease that causes inflammation of the brain, while the rest had died from "delivery-related issues", without providing further details.
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The highly contagious disease is caused by a virus and typically begins with a high fever and rash that can lead to complications of deafness, pneumonia, diarrhea and encephalitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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According to the CDC, the horrible mathematics of measles looks like this: One in every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia; one in 1,000 will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain); one or two in 1,000 children will die.
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The symptoms caused by this neuroinvasive disease can include fever, headache, swelling of the brain (encephalitis), swelling of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord (meningitis), vomiting, weakness, confusion, loss of coordination, trouble speaking and memory loss.
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Officials have blamed the severe heat wave, which has lasted for more than 30 consecutive days, as the reason behind the rise in cases but aren't sure how heat plays a role in the spread of acute encephalitis syndrome.
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Around the world, disease-carrying mosquitoes are advancing at speed, taking viruses such as dengue and Zika, plus a host of lesser-known ills such as chikungunya and St. Louis encephalitis, into new territories from Europe to the Pacific.
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By then, Saliah and his aunt Mariumma were dead too: not of Japanese encephalitis or some strain of malaria, as the doctors kept guessing, but (it turned out) of Nipah virus, which had appeared only once before in India.
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The Pentagon's Defense Logistics Agency awarded a maximum $6900 million, one-year contract to Intercell USA for an unstated number of doses of the Japanese encephalitis vaccine — though the "realistic contract estimate" is $2628 million, according to contract disclosures.
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Eastern equine encephalitis is a mosquito-borne virus that causes a rare, potentially fatal disease and seems to be spreading across the US. There have been 12 human cases of the virus and two deaths so far this season.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 129 children have now died of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in the town of Muzaffarpur in the eastern Indian state of Bihar since an outbreak earlier this month, a medical official said on Sunday.
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But when children are malnourished, and when they cannot get hospital care for complications like pneumonia or encephalitis, measles can kill one in 10 children, sometimes even more in refugee camps, said Dr. Katrina Kretsinger, a W.H.O. medical officer.
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As well as avoiding place names, those guidelines recommend not using people's names (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease), animal names (swine flu, equine encephalitis), cultural or occupational references (Legionnaires' disease) or words that induce fear (unknown, death, fatal, epidemic).
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Over the next one to two weeks, symptoms will start to seem more like meningitis, because, as Cope reminded me, meningoencephalitis, meningitis, and encephalitis are all terms for inflammation in and around the brain, and the symptoms are similar.
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"Between 2008 and 2014, there have been more than 44,000 cases and nearly 6000 deaths from encephalitis in India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar," according to a research paper published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research in 2017.
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Passages of the letter are heavily redacted, but the CDC said the suspension was related to an individual lead scientist and research on Japanese encephalitis, a deadly virus that is no longer considered a select agent by the US government.
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According to the CDC, the horrible mathematics of measles looks like this: One out of every 20 children with measles gets pneumonia; one in 1,193 will develop encephalitis (swelling of the brain); one or two in 1,000 children will die.
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Unlike other mosquito-borne diseases, such as chikungunya or Zika, West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis are always present in the US, circulating in birds and mosquitoes, and don't need to be imported by travelers from abroad to spark outbreaks.
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Measles encephalitis is what killed Olivia, the 7-year-old daughter of the writer Roald Dahl, in 1962, before the vaccine was available; he wrote a passionate letter to other parents two decades later, imploring them to get their children immunized.
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And one in 150 West Nile-infected people -- about 1,000 people a year in the US -- develop life-threatening brain infections such as encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord).
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Health officials have imposed emergency measures in the southwestern state of Kerala after the more than 40 people were infected with the Nipah virus, which causes flu-like symptoms leading to an agonizing brain-swelling condition known as encephalitis, according to Sky News.
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The disease, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, believed to be caused by dehydration and malnutrition, has reached endemic proportions in Muzaffarpur, a dirt-poor district of the eastern state of Bihar, which has some of the worst child health statistics anywhere in the world.
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Indian health officials and experts have been unable to accurately point to the cause of certain types of acute encephalitis syndrome and whether, as in the case of the latest India outbreak, it is viral or caused by the consumption of a toxin.
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The results, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, found "an unprecedented and significant rise in the hospitalization rate for congenital malformations of the nervous system, Guillain-Barré syndrome, encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis" beginning in mid-2014.
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It sounds like something out of a soap opera, but it's a true story, based on the memoir of the same name by Cahalan herself, chronicling what she went through when she was diagnosed with a condition called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
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Currently, no third generation vaccines are approved for human use in the US Currently, there aren't any such vaccines that can be used on people in the United States, although Australia permits the use of one for Japanese encephalitis, another mosquito-borne illness.
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GORAKHPUR, India (Reuters) - Indian health authorities on Monday delivered oxygen to a public hospital where 63 people have died of encephalitis in recent days, nearly half of them children, as it ran out of medical supplies because of unpaid bills, triggering public outrage.
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But experts say the Northern United States may be in for a bad tick season this summer, raising concerns about Lyme and other scary tick-borne diseases, including the Powassan virus, which causes encephalitis and can leave people with permanent neurological damage.
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The C.D.C. says that in the decade before a vaccine became available, in 1963, most children got measles by age 15; each year between three and four million people were infected, 48,000 were hospitalized, 1,000 came down with encephalitis and as many as 500 died.
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In the case of Nipah virus, which can cause a range of symptoms including fatal encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), infections were traced back to juice made from the sap of a date palm tree that had been contaminated by bat urine or saliva.
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The researchers also looked for data on rare, potentially deadly inflammations of the brain and spinal cord such as encephalitis, myelitis, and encephalomyelitis, as well as Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disorder where the body's immune system attacks its own nerve cells, causing pain, paralysis and even death.
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"These symptoms resemble conditions such as meningitis, encephalitis, and intracranial haemorrhage—this may confuse clinical diagnosis and result in unnecessary tests which can cause patient harm, cost a lot of money, and waste time," said Belitova in a release issued by the European Society of Anesthesiology.
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And just to be clear about how great those benefits are: In a typical year before the measles vaccine was available in the United States, the virus infected millions, sent tens of thousands to the hospital, gave encephalitis to at least a thousand and killed hundreds.
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EEEV can be spread by several species of mosquitoes, including those that make their home along the warmer areas of the U.S. Though many people infected with EEEV either develop no or only flu-like symptoms, around 5 percent go on to experience serious brain swelling (the titular encephalitis).
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West Nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis: other diseases are carried by Florida's numerous mosquito species, but Zika is the focus of anxiety because of its impact on tourism—partial travel advisories for the affected bits of Miami remain in force—plus the microcephaly it can cause in infants.
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In 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there was initially no increase in cases of West Nile virus or St. Louis encephalitis, which is also spread by mosquitoes, noted Dr. Peter J. Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
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Even our mosquito control program in Harris County, Texas – as renowned as it is nationally and well-supported as it is locally – is 98% funded by local tax-payer dollars and is primarily designed to protect against the Culex mosquito that can transmit St. Louis Encephalitis and West Nile virus.
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In addition to suffering from many of the usual complaints of contemporary aging (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney disease, congestive heart failure), he had endured illnesses unusual for any age and era: viral meningitis, West Nile encephalitis, an autoimmune disorder whose identity evaded the best doctors at the Cleveland Clinic.
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Measles is a highly contagious virus that can cause serious respiratory symptoms, fever and rash, as well as permanent deafness or encephalitis in severe cases, according to the C.D.C. The measles vaccine, which was first licensed in 1963 , is extremely safe and effective and causes no side effects in a majority of cases.
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The state government's initial response to the oxygen fiasco was to imply that it was perfectly normal for 10 children to die every day at the Gorakhpur hospital, especially at this time of year, the rainy season, when swarms of mosquitoes spread deadly Japanese encephalitis, a virus that causes brain swelling and seizures.
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Even though dengue and chikungunya have been implicated in Guillain-Barre, the evidence is probably stronger that two other mosquito-born viruses, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis, increase the risk of the syndrome, said Jae Jung, director of the Institute of Emerging Pathogens and Immune Diseases at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
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" Dr. Greene, the physicist, said that he was "awe-struck" when he met Dr. Sacks, who he said had "a ferocious talent and a rare gift" for finding beauty and humanity in the stories of people given diagnoses of illnesses like autism, Tourette's or encephalitis lethargica — the disease that afflicted the patients in his book "Awakenings.
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Measles is a highly infectious disease which can cause life-threatening pneumonia and swelling of the brain known as encephalitis and, yes, there is a vaccine for it, but in recent years, some people have chosen to ignore the advice of doctors and not get their kids vaccinated, which puts their children's and neighbors' lives at risk.
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Even with modern medical care, the disease normally kills about one out of every 24,2000 victims, according to the C.D.C. Pneumonia and encephalitis — swelling of the brain — are the most common severe complications, and epidemics among malnourished children who cannot get modern hospital care have mortality rates of 2400 percent or more, according to the World Health Organization.
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Corpus Christi, Texas Been there, done that: Annette Rodriguez, health director for the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Health District in Texas, says her level of concern is about a two on a scale of 10, but only because mosquito-borne illnesses are nothing new to the area after battling swine flu, West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis in the past.
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