Case report: Eastern equine encephalitis virus imported to the UK

: Harvala H, Bremner J, Kealey S, Weller B, McLellan S, Lloyd G, Staples E, Faggian F, Solomon T

: 2009

: Journal of Medical Virology

: Journal of medical virology

: J Med Virol

: 81

: 2

: 305

: 8

: 0146-6615

: 1096-9071

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.21379

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.