id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-298489-uqrzzh0e Bale, James F. Emerging Viral Infections 2012-08-11 .txt text/plain 3861 219 42 The viruses and disorders discussed herein include West Nile virus, an arboviral infection that swept across the United States in the early years of the 21st century; Nipah encephalitis, a paramyxovirus-induced disorder endemic to India, Bangladesh, and South Asia; chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disorder that affects persons in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia; dengue virus, an arthropod-borne Flavivirus that infects more than 100 million persons annually; and parechovirus, a picornavirus that can cause severe disease in neonates and permanent neurodevelopmental disability in surviving infants. 6 Infection control measures, including the slaughter and disposal of Ͼ1 million pigs, contained the disease; during this outbreak, human-to-human transmission of Nipah virus was not observed. The virus, first associated with human disease in Tanzania in the early 1950s, reemerged in 2005-2006 when Ͼ200,000 persons living in the Reunion Islands contracted chikungunya disease 29 ; nearly 1000 deaths among children and adults were reported. ./cache/cord-298489-uqrzzh0e.txt ./txt/cord-298489-uqrzzh0e.txt