Encephalitis viral causes - Miracle Health Care And Wellness Centre
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The viruses that can cause encephalitis include:
Herpes simplex virus (HSV):
Both HSV type 1 associated with cold sores and fever blisters around your mouth and HSV type 2 associated with genital herpes can cause encephalitis. Encephalitis caused by HSV type 1 is rare but can result in significant brain damage or death.
Other herpes viruses:
These include the Epstein-Barr virus, which commonly causes infectious mononucleosis, and the varicella-zoster virus, which commonly causes chickenpox and shingles.
Enteroviruses :
These viruses include the poliovirus and the coxsackievirus, which usually cause an illness with flu-like symptoms, eye inflammation and abdominal pain.
Mosquito-borne viruses:
These viruses can cause infections such as West Nile, La Crosse, St. Louis, western equine and eastern equine encephalitis. Symptoms of an infection might appear within a few days to a couple of weeks after exposure to a mosquito-borne virus.
Tick-borne viruses:
The Powassan virus is carried by ticks and causes encephalitis in the Midwestern United States, Southern, West and central Africa . Symptoms usually appear about a week after a bite from an infected tick.
Rabies virus :
Infection with the rabies virus, which is usually transmitted by a bite from an infected animal, causes a rapid progression to encephalitis once symptoms begin. Rabies is a common cause in Africa than other continents.
Childhood infections :
Common childhood infections such as 👉🏾measles (rubeola),
👉🏾mumps and German measles (rubella) used to be fairly common causes of secondary encephalitis. These causes are now common particularly in Africa.
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