encephalitis
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Most people recover without needing treatment, but the lesions can be extremely painful and more severe cases can result in complications including encephalitis and death.
From Seattle Times
They reportedly died of encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, that can be caused by some viruses.
From Seattle Times
Yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and West Nile disease are also viruses in the Zika family.
From BBC
These can cause rare but life-threatening side effects such as encephalitis or progressive vaccinia, the spread of the vaccine virus to the whole body, to which immunocompromised people are vulnerable.
From Science Magazine
That moment came for Ms. Beckett, she observed in an essay published by the American Civil Liberties Union, just four months into her life as a mother, when her infant daughter, Katie, contracted viral encephalitis.
From Washington Post
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