What are the symptoms of eee

Not Medical Advice: Symptoms of Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV or EEE) may include anorexia, chills, cyanosis, coma, convulsions, diarrhea, drowsiness, fever, headache, irritability, joint pain, malaise, muscle pain, restlessness, and/or vomiting.

The infection usually comes on abruptly with fever, chills, joint pain, muscle pain, and a general feeling of discomfort/uneasiness. The illness usually lasts one to two weeks. No human vaccine for the EEE virus is available at this time.

EEE, which is rare in humans with only a few cases reported in the United States annually, occurs in humans bitten by a mosquito infected with the virus. Most cases occur in the Gulf Coast and Atlantic states.

EEE results in death for approximately 1/3 of all persons stricken with the disease. Those who recover are often left with chronic physical and/or mental conditions such as seizures, paralysis, personality disorders, severe intellectual impairment, and brain and cranial nerve dysfunction. Many left with such severe and disabling impairment die within a few years of the initial infection.

According to news reports in mid-September 2012, Massachusetts public health officials reported a fourth Massachusetts resident infected with Eastern equine encephalitis virus in 2012 had been hospitalized; among the four people in the state infected in 2012, one had died. In 2011, only two people in Massachusetts were reported as having been infected with EEE.

As of mid-September 2012, two people in Vermont have died from EEE. In the United States, six people died from the disease in 2011.