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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.

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