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Case report: Eastern equine encephalitis virus imported to the UK
Author(s) -
Harvala Heli,
Bremner John,
Kealey Susan,
Weller Belinda,
McLellan Stuart,
Lloyd Graham,
Staples Erin,
Faggian Federica,
Solomon Tom
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.21379
Subject(s) - virology , case fatality rate , encephalitis , venezuelan equine encephalitis virus , virus , medicine , biology , environmental health , population
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is rare, but the most severe of the mosquito‐borne encephalitides in the United States with a high case fatality rate of 30%. Here, we present a patient with EEE. EEE virus causes sporadic human disease in the Eastern parts of the United States, but the case we describe was a Scottish tourist who acquired the disease from mosquito bites while in holiday in the United States. This is a first report of an imported case to Europe. J. Med. Virol. 81:305–308, 2009. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.