Mondo Description An acute arboviral infection caused by a virus of the Flaviviridae family transmitted by an infected mosquito, that is asymptomatic in the majority of cases but that can present in rare occasions with mild flulike symptoms such as low-grade fever, arthralgia, myalgia, and/or rash, or with neurologic manifestations including meningitis, encephalitis with mental confusion or disorientation, tremors and acute flaccid paralysis/poliomyelitis.
Disease Ontology Description A viral infectious disease that results in inflammation located in brain, has material basis in West Nile virus, which is transmitted by Culex, transmitted by Aedes, and transmitted by Anopheles species of mosquitoes. The infection has symptom high fever, has symptom headache, has symptom neck stiffness, has symptom stupor, has symptom disorientation, has symptom coma, has symptom tremors, has symptom convulsions, has symptom muscle weakness, has symptom vision loss, has symptom numbness, and has symptom paralysis.
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This disease has been annotated by GARD as a rare disease.
Description from Mondo Disease Ontology.
Description from Disease Ontology
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DOID:2365
EFO:0007545
GARD:0009959
ICD9:066.41
Orphanet:83476
SCTID:392662004
MONDO:0019376
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