Sophie Ella contracted encephalitis, inflammation of the brain, at the beginning of the covid pandemic, which resulted in a four-month hospital stay ...

February 22 marks World Encephalitis Day, helping to raise awareness of a disease many don't know about. In the last decade in the United States, approximately 250,000 patients were admitted to the ...

What looks like the flu or a sudden mental health change could be far more serious. Six warning signs could help save a life.

A NEUROI ECTIOUS disease specialist on Monday urged the public to recognize the early signs of encephalitis, ahead of World Encephalitis Day on Feb. 22. In an exclusive interview with The Manila Times ...

Officials in New South Wales are warning residents to take precautions after a probable case of Japanese encephalitis, a rare but serious mosquito-borne illness.

Introduction Nipah virus (NiV) is a bat-transmitted paramyxovirus causing recurrent, high-mortality outbreaks in South and South-East Asia. As a WHO priority pathogen, efforts are underway to develop ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 28-year-old son is in the hospital. He hasn’t been acting like himself for a few weeks (not sleeping nor eating well), and he suddenly had four seizures. The doctors are worried ...

The United States is facing one of its most severe flu seasons in decades, data show. Infections and hospitalizations are surging, driven by a new mutated influenza A variant, H3N2 "subclade K." ...

Sponsored by The Ewald W. Busse, MD, ScD Lectureship Endowment Fund Dr. Mooneyham is an Associate Research Physician at the National Institutes of Health where she serves as Medical Director of the ...

KATHMANDU – Since June, 31 people have died and 133 others have been infected with the Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus in Nepal. Both deaths and the number of infections are at their highest levels ...