A species of ALPHAVIRUS causing encephalomyelitis in Equidae and humans. The virus ranges along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States and Canada and as far south as the Caribbean, Mexico, and parts of Central and South America. Infections in horses show a mortality of up to 90 percent and in humans as high as 80 percent in epidemics.

Annotation

infection: coordinate with ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, EQUINE but see note there

DUI

D004663 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0007342

History note

91(75); was see under ALPHAVIRUSES 1981-90; was see under ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES 1975-80

Public note

91; was see under ALPHAVIRUSES 1981-90; was see under ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES 1975-80