Alphavirus infectious disease western equine encephalitis https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/7888/western-equine-encephalitis https://www.malacards.org/card/western_equine_encephalitis An acute arboviral infection caused by an alphavirus of the Togaviridae family transmitted by an infected mosquito, that more frequently affects children and that is characterized by the presence of mild flulike symptoms (fever, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, and anorexia) but that can progress to weakness, altered mental status, photophobia, mental confusion, seizures, somnolence, coma and/or even death. The disease can leave neurological sequelae, mainly in infants and children, such as seizures, spasticity or behavioral disorders. MEDGEN:57778 DOID:10843 ICD9:062.1 UMLS:C0153064 MedDRA:10014614 SCTID:47523006 Western equine encephalitis virus caused infectious encephalitis NCIT:C85227 Western equine encephalitis virus infectious encephalitis GARD:0007888 MESH:D020241 MONDO:0019380 icd11.foundation:1543765035 Orphanet:83593 ICD10CM:A83.1 EFO:0007546 Western equine encephalomyelitis mosquito-borne viral encephalitis obsolete_Western equine encephalitis