"We are waiting for the encephalitis to die its natural death by mid-October".
He was awarded the Elliot Hochstein Award for best teacher of medicine in the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) twice, once before the encephalitis, and again, ten years after the encephalitis.
In 1996, when public parks were closed because of the threat of the encephalitis, pesticides were sprayed over 100,000 acres in the county.
With the encephalitis I woke up one day with a bad headache, feeling terrible and I gradually lost my motor skills until I ended up in intensive care.
Prognosis depends upon the specific viral agent that caused the encephalitis; mortality can be as high as 70 percent.
Analyzing the genetic material, he and his colleagues concluded that the encephalitis had been caused by West Nile virus.
Stacy Albin CONNECTICUT STAMFORD: VIRUS TEST -- The state's Department of Environmental Protection has begun trapping mosquitoes in lower Fairfield and New Haven Counties to test for the West Nile strain of the encephalitis virus.
A new mosquito from Asia has been found in 35 places in Connecticut, causing concern that it could spread the potentially deadly West Nile strain of the encephalitis virus.
After the encephalitis attack, Aline told Johnson's former clients about her amnesia, and when she told Robert Landau, in December, 2008, he asked Barbara, whose specialty is language and spacial knowledge, if she could help.
He recognised them as survivors of the encephalitis epidemic that had swept the world from 1916 to 1927, and treated them with a then-experimental drug, L-dopa, which enabled them to recover.
