Case report: Eastern equine encephalitis virus imported to the UK
Authors: Harvala H, Bremner J, Kealey S, Weller B, McLellan S, Lloyd G, Staples E, Faggian F, Solomon T
Publication year: 2009
Journal: Journal of Medical Virology
Journal name in source: Journal of medical virology
Journal acronym: J Med Virol
Volume: 81
Issue: 2
First page : 305
Last page: 8
ISSN: 0146-6615
eISSN: 1096-9071
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.21379
Abstract
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.
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.
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