Some Important Diseases of the Equine Neurological System
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Definition and history Inflammation of the brain can be caused by a number of diseases, but one of the preventable causes is viral infection. In addition to Rabies, with which most people have some familiarity, two other families of virus can cause brain infections in horses, resulting in what is commonly termed viral encephalitis. The first and older group is the Alphavirus family (previously classified as Arboviruses, “arbo” meaning “arthropodborne” or insect-borne viruses). In the USA these Alphavirus diseases include Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis (EEE), Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE), and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE, although not for decades in the USA). The other family which results in viral encephalitis in horses is the Flavivirus family, which includes West Nile Virus Encephalomyelitis (WNV).
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