Perhaps someone more current in arthropod vector viral infections may care to correct me, but I am under the impression that the West Nile infection is just another equine encephalitis. [I use the term
just with caution as these diseases can be quite devastating to those who contract them.]
There are several of these equine encaphalitis infections around which cause a number of infections annually, specifically Eastern Equine Encephalitis, Western Equine Encephalitis, St. Louis Equine Encephalitis and Venezuelean Equine Encephalitis. These diseases are primarily bird to bird infections [carried by mosquitoes] with occasional cases occurring in both horses and humans. The old-fashioned term for these diseases used to be sleeping sickness.
Good afternoon.
"The old-fashioned term for these diseases used to be sleeping-sickness."
I didn't know that. Is this what used to devastate the cattle herds in southern Africa?
Michael Frazier