Sentences with phrase «acute encephalitis»

Rabies causes acute encephalitis and eventually infects the entire nervous system causing death.

Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm blooded animals.

Not exact matches

It is a viral encephalitis marked by acute onset of confusion, hallucinations, combativeness, muscle spasms, and seizures.

Less than a decade ago, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis was first identified, a disease characterized by inflammation of the brain that causes acute psychiatric symptoms including psychosis.

Merck adds: «In acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (post infectious encephalitis), demyelination can occur spontaneously, but usually follows a viral infection or inoculation (or very rarely a bacterial vaccine), suggesting an immunologic cause.»

The Merck Manual describes encephalitis as «an acute inflammatory disease of the brain due to direct viral invasion or to hypersensitivity initiated by a virus or other foreign protein.

Another example is the Supreme Court Case of Lapierre v. A.G, where damages were not awarded for the contraction of acute viral encephalitis from a measles vaccine.