A large US study has found that encephalitis is linked to a significantly higher long-term risk of dementia, especially ...

Encephalitis can be characterized as either primary or secondary. Whereas primary encephalitis arises when a virus or other type of agent directly infects the brain, secondary encephalitis is due to ...

Japanese encephalitis is a mosquito-borne viral infection. It is the leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia. Humans can get the disease a mosquito that carries the virus bites them. Encephalitis ...

A virus previously considered to be relatively harmless has been pinpointed by University of Alberta researchers as a cause of encephalitis. The finding identifies a pathogen named pegivirus as the ...

Encephalitis lethargica is an unusual form of encephalitis, also known of as “sleepy sickness.” The condition was first defined in 1917 by Constantin von Economo, a neurologist who described the ...

The City of Midland Health Services confirmed the first case of St. Louis encephalitis virus in local mosquitoes in Midland ...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is so called because it was first reported from Japan and the major complication is encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). JE is the most important form of viral ...

When I was a little boy, I had a sense of adventure. Not a big or dramatic sense, just in an everyday way. My parents bought me a mustard-coloured Chopper bike for my ninth birthday and I loved doing ...