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From: rkw@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Dr. R.K. Wright)
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Subject: Re: Encephalitis
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In <39213@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> The.Bird@f38.n135.z1.fidonet.org (The "Bird") writes:

>We have been told that there is a serious encephalitis outbreak spread by 
>mosquitos in Florida. The local news here in Miami has been reporting it's 
>migration south from northern Fl.
the epidemic is St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) 

>It's impossible to protect yourself from mosquito bites here. Is there 
That is not absolutely true.  the Culex spp. that carry SLE are active
only around dusk and dawn.  Avoid being outside then.
>anything, especially as a PWA, that can be done for protection? Are PWA's in 
>any great danger? 
SLE is pretty rare so certain answers seem impossible, but based upon
everything which I have seen, HIV infection does not make SLE
different.  Also the death rate is a lot less than reported as lots of
people have the sense not to go to the doctor with flu like symptoms.

>What are the symptoms of the disease?
Intense headaches, projectile vomiting, severe malaise lasting up to
several weeks.  I got mine during a non-epidemic period in December of
1985.  My wife alwasys thought the exorcist vomiting scene was made
up.

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R.K. Wright MD                                                uunet!medex2!rkw
Chief Medical Examiner                                   rkw@medexam.ftl.fl.us
Associate Professor Pathology