Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died aged 65, following his health battle with viral encephalitis. Confirming his death in ...

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Shingles, the infection that sent Sen. Dianne Feinstein to the hospital in February, affects a third of Americans. But the related complications the 89-year-old senator faced — encephalitis and Ramsay ...

Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued an alert that the first case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) has been documented in a human in the state this year. Here’s ...

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A rare and deadly mosquito-borne disease has been popping up again this summer: eastern equine encephalitis, a viral illness that causes brain swelling in severe cases and has claimed at least one ...

Eastern equine encephalitis is a virus that is primarily transmitted by certain mosquitoes. It was first identified in horses that died of encephalitis along the mid-Atlantic coast in 1933. EEE was ...