Arbovirus - Any of various viruses transmitted by blood - sucking arthropods (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks, etc.) and including the causative agents of dengue fever, yellow fever, and
some types of encephalitis.
Malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, West Nile virus, and various
types of encephalitis are all carried by mosquitoes, and some of the diseases they carry are literally strong enough to kill a horse.
Not exact matches
The Onondaga County Health Department, which traps and tests mosquitoes every summer for West Nile and Eastern Equine
Encephalitis, has never found the
types of mosquitoes that transmit Zika in its traps.
During the course
of these experiments, a report appeared describing a similar immunopathologic -
type reaction with prominent eosinophils in SARS - CoV challenged Balb / c mice that had been given Venezuelan equine
encephalitis (VEE) vector containing the SARS nucleocapsid protein gene [18].
There are several other
encephalitis or menigoencephalomyelitis conditions that can cause these
types of signs.