DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Ever since I had my son, I tend to worry whenever he gets ill, so I try to educate myself on different viruses and autoimmune disorders. I recently came across encephalitis. What is ...

Commonly found viruses such as the parvovirus B19 (PVB19) can cause serious brain infections like encephalitis, said ...

Commonly found viruses such as the parvovirus B19 (PVB19) can cause serious brain infections like encephalitis, said ...

Nipah virus is a particularly dangerous infectious agent, causing acute encephalitis, rapidly progressing respiratory failure ...

Encephalitis can involve high fever, headache, confusion, seizures, and sometimes permanent brain damage or death,” it added.

A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for encephalitis (brain inflammation), caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not ...

A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for ...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis, caused by HSV types 1 and 2, is the most common sporadic viral encephalitis worldwide, with an annual incidence of around 2·2–4·6 per million people.1 Before ...

Health authorities in the United States are issuing warnings and closing public parks due to a rare but potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease. This week, a resident of the US state of New ...