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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus

VEE virus subtype IE genotype continuously circulating in southern Mexico

Published in Blood Weekly, February 24th, 2005

Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus subtype IE genotype is continuously circulating in southern Mexico.

"Equine epizootics of Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) occurred in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas in 1993 and Oaxaca in 1996.

"To assess the impact of continuing circulation of VEE virus (VEEV) on human and animal populations, serologic and viral isolation studies were conducted in 2000 to 2001 in Chiapas State," investigators in the United States report.

"Human serosurveys and risk analyses indicated that long-term endemic transmission of VEEV Occurred among villages with seroprevalence levels of 18 to 75% and that...

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