How to Use encephalitis in a Sentence

encephalitis

noun

• About 1 in every 20 children will develop pneumonia, and others may develop a dangerous swelling in the brain called encephalitis.
  — Deidre McPhillips and Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
• But Keystone virus is one of a group of viruses that are known to lead to encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 25 June 2018
• The disease can then cause encephalitis—swelling of the brain—that can be deadly.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
• Measles can also cause blindness and encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 28 Aug. 2019
• By Day 31, a test confirms that Nicholas has encephalitis.
  — Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2010
• Two children died from encephalitis, or swelling in their brains.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
• Maybe that child won’t end up being injured with encephalitis as a result, the way my son did.
  — Amy Wallace, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2009
• 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
• It was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, and measles encephalitis with it.
  — Emmi S. Herman, STAT, 7 May 2024
• Symptoms can progress to a coma and lead to encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 May 2018
• 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
• The virus can cause encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, which is what worries Amylynne.
  — Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2010
• In rare cases, the flu or other viruses can go to the brain and cause encephalitis, which is a fancy term for brain inflammation.
  — Beth Kassab, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 May 2018
• The Anopheles is a malaria carrier, and the other three are known to spread various forms of encephalitis.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 17 May 2017
• 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
• In severe cases—like the recent one in Maine—the disease can spread to the brain, causing encephalitis, or the membranes around the brain and spinal cord, causing meningitis.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 25 July 2019
• The summertime pest can spread diseases, like West Nile Virus, encephalitis and Zika.
  — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 2 July 2019
• 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
• Other pieces are longer, more introspective and cover a lengthy span of time, such as the chapter about falling ill with encephalitis as a child, an episode that set the stage for the rest of her life.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2018
• The disease can cause hearing loss and, in rare cases, five to ten years later, a usually fatal form of encephalitis.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The virus spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito and can cause symptoms ranging from a mild fever to encephalitis or meningitis.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• 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
• She was later admitted to the hospital after coming down with encephalitis or swelling of the brain.
  — NBC News, 13 Aug. 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
• By the sixties, some of Sacks’s patients had been hospitalized for forty years, and the encephalitis epidemic itself had largely been forgotten.
  — Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024