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West Nile encephalitis

DEFINITIONS OF: West Nile encephalitis

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n encephalitis caused by the West Nile virus; can be fatal in humans and horses and birds

Type of:
cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis
inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)
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