Re-emergence of epidemic Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis in South America

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(96)02275-1

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Re-emergence of epidemic Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis in South America

1 Aug 1996

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BACKGROUND: Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus has caused periodic epidemics among human beings and equines in Latin America from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The first major outbreak since 1973 occurred in Venezuela and Colombia during 1995, and involved an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people. We report an epidemiological and virological investigation of this epidemic. METHODS: Virus isolates were...

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