- Nowadays, we are getting to know about a lot of infectious diseases that are spreading rapidly all over the world. The world is not ready to face this.
- According to the latest sources provided by different health and medical authorities, there is a new case that has led to an increase in the number of fatalities.
- The cases of this irrecoverable brain-damaging virus continue to emerge in the eastern region of the US.
- This year, the last victim was a farmer from Michigan, who fell ill due to this disease.
- The statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this year show that it was a tough year.
- There was a massive increase in the number of patients suffering from eastern equine encephalitis, and fourteen of them died eventually.
- Eastern equine encephalitis, also referred to as EEE or Triple E, is a dangerous disease that can cause severe swelling of the brain.
- As a result, disease victims often experience permanent brain damage, which can lead to severe cognitive disability, behavioral disorders, and seizures.
- The people over the age of 50 and under the age of 15 seem to be at high risk.
- Symptoms such as headache, high fever, chills, and achy muscles are likely to occur in the starting.
- Some people are only bothered by flu-like symptoms.
- However, around one-third of the people who are infected by the virus eventually die.
- Many patients suffer from recurring neurological problems.
- This virus infects many mammals, including horses, birds, and even human beings.
- The pathogen that is equally responsible for this is EEEV.
- Some stages show how this particular pathogen travels and how it is transmitted.
- This virus infects mosquitoes only, and when these mosquitoes feed on birds, the birds get infected too.
- Therefore, when normal mosquitoes feed on the infected bird, the mosquito gets infected, and that virus is passed to a human when the mosquito bites the human.
- The cases related to Eastern equine encephalitis are on the peak when its late summer or early fall in the US.
- Cold weathers cause mosquito activity to taper off eventually, and the spread of infection also lowers.
- The spread of this pathogen depends upon the weather.
- If the weather remains warm afterward, the virus begins continues to develop and prosper.
- This virus is untreatable, and there is no such vaccine or an anti-viral treatment developed to cure eastern equine encephalitis.
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Team Doctor ASKY!