SPADA Working Groups ~ April Meeting Book
Epizootic VEEV infections (continued) • Human pathogen (continued) – Neurologic manifestations in small percent of elderly and children • Neck stiffness, convulsions, coma, paralysis. • Most VEE fatalities occur in children (up to 20%)
• Transmissible by aerosol – Human‐human transmission in natural outbreak is negligible – Virus is stable in aerosol form
C F t lit R t ase a a y a es
Equine
Human
WEE
20‐40%
~10%
EEE
~ 90%
~33%
VEE
38‐90% <1 – 20%*
* most VEE fatalities occur in children
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