How to Use encephalitis in a Sentence

encephalitis

noun

• The disease can then cause encephalitis—swelling of the brain—that can be deadly.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
• Two children died from encephalitis, or swelling in their brains.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• However, in 2022, the county had a case of Jamestown Canyon virus encephalitis.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
• That virus is known to cause encephalitis and is transmitted to humans by ticks.
  — Adam Edelman, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2019
• Samples collected the first year showed 12 percent of the birds had been exposed to West Nile virus but none had been exposed to encephalitis.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2019
• It was first identified as the cause of severe human encephalitis in 2018.
  — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
• Lewis went on to note the reports of deaths, including encephalitis cases.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022
• That was too late for my sister, Mary Maura Grimaldi, who died at age 6 of encephalitis caused by measles, on the same day the licenses were announced.
  — James V. Grimaldi, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• The 89-year-old Democrat was suffering from encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, and a condition known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• But during two terrible years Verdi lost them all: a girl, a boy and then Margherita, who succumbed to encephalitis at 26.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• But about 20% of people develop more serious illness and in about half of them the virus moves into the brain, causing encephalitis.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Nov. 2019
• In rare cases, the virus can cause severe disease in the brain and/or spinal cord, including encephalitis and meningitis.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2023
• Some develop encephalitis and meningitis, which are fancy words for inflammation of the brain or the membranes that wrap around the brain and spinal cord.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Known for giving a rash, measles can also result in fevers, coughs and can eventually turn into pneumonia and encephalitis, the swelling of the brain.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
• Both men developed encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, which can be triggered by viral infections.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
• But, in severe cases, POWV can cause encephalitis, which is inflammation of brain tissue, or meningitis, which is swelling of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 June 2022
• MacGowan, who would have turned 66 on Christmas Day, had been battling viral encephalitis before his death.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2023
• After his playing days, McNamara worked as a coach and a scout before a bout with encephalitis forced him to alter his career path.
  — Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• But if a mammalian host or other type of bird is bitten and encephalitis develops, the fatality rate can be high.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2019
• A week later the bear was euthanized, and autopsy results showed the bear had encephalitis, an inflamed brain.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
• Merleau-Ponty refused on rather weak grounds and Zaza, overwrought and unhappy, got ill with the viral encephalitis that would kill her.
  — Lara Feigel, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2021
• But in severe cases, the disease may contribute to encephalitis or a rare inflammation of the brain tissue.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 12 June 2020
• The disease is related to bovine spongiform encephalitis, or mad cow disease, although CWD has not been shown to be transferable to humans.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• Feinstein, who is 90 and frail after a bout with shingles and encephalitis earlier this year, was home in San Francisco.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Symptoms include encephalitis, which Hagan suffered from, and meningitis, which is inflammation of the lining of the spinal cord and brain.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• This includes deaths due to snake bites, encephalitis, road accidents, among other causes.
  — Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2021
• In 1946, Stan Ulam was diagnosed with viral encephalitis.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2022
• In some cases, the virus can lead to neurological issues, such as infection of the brain (known as encephalitis) or infection of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 23 Apr. 2022
• Take a vaccine called the Japanese encephalitis vaccine, which prevents a type of encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).
  — Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Sep. 2022
• But counterexamples abound: At the start of the pandemic, the UK had only two plants making seasonal flu jabs and a Japanese encephalitis vaccine.
  — Katie Gallogly-Swan, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024