Talk:Eastern equine encephalitis

4% of "known infected" statistic

This statistic leads to https://www.cdc.gov/EasternEquineEncephalitis/tech/symptoms.html which no longer contains any such statistic. It does still contain the "one third die" statistic, but I was interested in learning how we found "known infected" (testing random people without symptoms?) and noticed that the stat had disappeared. I see a "most people infected don't become ill" assertion here: https://portal.ct.gov/Mosquito/Diseases/Eastern-Equine-Encephalitis-FAQs but still nothing to back up that 4%. Trickycrayon (talk) 20:21, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

On a related note, the article currently says that "the fatality rate in humans is 33%" but also says that "about 4% of humans known to be infected develop symptoms." How can 33% die when only 4% develop symptoms? That discrepancy is likely to confuse many readers. The second statement is followed by "a third of these cases die," so perhaps the first statement should be "the fatality rate in humans is 33% of symptomatic cases" (to make clear that it is not 33% of infections), but I don't know enough about this disease to make such an edit. 2603:7000:3400:69F6:6825:17B3:503C:AB1D (talk) 03:43, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

The papers I've read indicate that ~1/3rd of severely symptomatic cases are fatal AND that ~96% of cases are asymptomatic. The issue I've encountered is that there are definitely cases that cause mild flu-like symptoms, but there doesn't seem to be an indication as to whether these cases are included in the 96% of asymptomatic cases or whether they are in the 4% of symptomatic cases. While logically they should be included in the 4%, it is not uncommon for the "symptomatic" rates to only concern individuals who have severe enough symptoms to be differentiated from general cold- and flu-like diseases. FoldedGenes (talk) 00:23, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Untitled

This article seems very incomplete. Shouldn't it mention early symptoms (Flu-like symptoms, sore neck) and what it does(swelling of the brain) and should mention the fact that it is untreatable.i agree.this article has no symptom,diagnosis,treatment,or prognosis section.24.97.164.250 (talk) 15:46, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Available image

Once this article is expanded some, here is a source for a public domain image of histology of the encephalitis caused by EEE [1]. -Joelmills 02:47, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

And another one of an affected hen [2]. --Joelmills 19:48, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

under Presentation,

"After inoculation by stupid the vector, the virus travels via lymphatics to lymph nodes and replicates in macrophages and neutrophils, resulting in lymphopenia, leukopenia and fever. Subsequent replication occur in other organs leading to viremia"

am i reading this right?? stupid?? --Flora tink (talk) 15:33, 16 January 2011 (UTC)Sarah

30% of infected?

This seems wrong. A simple trot to the cdc website says only 4% of humans infected actually present with symptoms, and only a third of those have brain damage, and only 6 present with symptoms each year in the US. 76.21.107.221 (talk) 23:52, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

It seems correct to me. This CDC web page:

http://www.cdc.gov/EasternEquineEncephalitis/tech/factSheet.html states:

"Mortality rate:

Approximately a third of those who develop EEE die. Many of those who survive will have mild to severe permanent neurologic damage. Many patients with severe sequelae die within a few years." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.201.13 (talk) 20:42, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

List of towns with confirmed mosquitos

This is valuable. There are only a couple arbitrarily chosen towns in this article now. I'm not sure whether we can pull the table directly. Risc64 (talk) 01:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Globalize

I added the {{globalize}} template to the article. The introduction states the disease is "present in North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean" but does not elaborate on prevalence of the disease outside of the United States. Gnome de plume (talk) 20:37, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Source information/references

https://onezero.medium.com/a-deadly-mosquito-borne-illness-is-brewing-in-the-northeast-d3283c71c6a0

2024 Massachusetts outbreak

User:LordOfWalruses asked about the current outbreak at the Teahouse, and I followed up with some tips there. LoW, if you wish to look into this further, the right place to start, as User:TooManyFingers pointed out, is with sources, which you will have to have before you can add anything to this article – much less start a whole new article, which is a much more difficult task).

In order to jump-start your effort, please have a look at some of the following search result links, which may be helpful to you in finding good sources you can use:

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

(Note: don't bother with the "Books" link; this is far too recent an event for there to be any printed books about it yet.) You will also need to know about how to write a citation; please see Help:Referencing for beginners. If you need any additional assistance, feel free to reply here, or the Teahouse. Mathglot (talk) 02:08, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

It looks like LordOfWalruses is editing from the mobile site, and may find the mobile visual editor a quicker and easier way to add citations.

Here are a few news sources:

• https://apnews.com/article/mosquito-virus-massachusetts-eee-parks-fields-oxford-4a99dcebab64a9f06fe23186a182a0e2
• https://apnews.com/article/eastern-equine-encephalitis-west-nile-virus-malaria-dengue-3f1b595c8b39e3391ba60651ddf4baab
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/25/massachusetts-rare-mosquito-virus/
• https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/08/26/how-the-state-is-dealing-with-eee-mosquitoes-in-plymouth-and-worcester-counties/
• https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/24/health/plymouth-ma-encephalitis-risk-closures/index.html
• https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/08/24/first-human-case-of-eee-in-mass-since-2020-prompts-warnings-and-in-one-town-a-curfew/

The boston.com ones might be particularly useful (e.g., number of towns at high risk and government actions). WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:20, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

I’ll look into this whenever I can, but unfortunately I’m don’t have a lot of free-time for Wikipedia, so I’ll have to come back to this later. I wanted to write on this issue earlier, but I was affected by a general IP-based block, so I couldn’t do so. LordOfWalruses (talk) 03:09, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

LordOfWalruses, thanks, and in your own time. We are all volunteers, here, and there is no deadline. Thanks to WhatamIdoing for the sources, as well. Mathglot (talk) 03:24, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

You’re welcome, and I appreciate the assurance. LordOfWalruses (talk) 01:52, 11 September 2024 (UTC)