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Encephalitis

Background

Encephalitis comes from the Greek 'enkephalos' meaning brain and 'itis' meaning inflammation. The effects of encephalitis can range in severity from having little or no long-term results to being life-threatening. Children and adults of both sexes and all ethnic groups can be affected at any age. It is thought that the annual incidence in the UK and Republic of Ireland is 4 in 100,000, or 2,500 people per year.

Specific forms of encephalitis include acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, Rasmussen encephalitis, Hashimoto's encephalitis, subacute-sclerosing panencephalitis, West Nile encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis and tick-borne encephalitis (see entry Arboviral Encephalitides).

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Medical text written November 2005 by the Encephalitis Society and Contact a Family. Approved November 2005 by Professor Hawkins, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Keele University and Consultant Neurologist to the Regional Neuroscience Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.

 

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