After leaving there, he worked in private industry on the Western equine encephalitis virus.

In the early 1930s, thousands of horses in California suffered and died from a paralytic disease, later called western equine encephalitis.

Western equine encephalitis, spread by Culex tarsalis in the Western states, also can cause serious illness, especially in children.

Western equine encephalitis virus (WEE)

Mosquitoes in Idaho can carry malaria, and some can carry western equine encephalitis, which can be lethal or cause neurological damage.

In the 1930s, St. Louis encephalitis, eastern equine encephalitis and western equine encephalitis emerged in the US.

EEEV is closely related to Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and Western equine encephalitis virus.

Western equine encephalitis virus was one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before the nation suspended its biological weapons program.

Viral encephalitis (alphaviruses, for example,: Venezuelan equine encephalitis, eastern equine encephalitis, western equine encephalitis)

An example of a recombinant virus is Western equine encephalitis virus (WEE), which is a recombinant virus between two other closely related yet distinct encephalitis viruses.

Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus closely related to the o'nyong'nyong virus, the Ross River virus in Australia, and the viruses that cause eastern equine encephalitis and western equine encephalitis.

Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and Western equine encephalitis (WEE) occurs in the United States where it causes disease in humans, horses, and some bird species.

The sole mammalian fatality attributed to HJ was a Florida horse originally diagnosed with Western equine encephalitis in 1964, which was later redetermined in 1989 to have been caused by HJ.

These viruses - in particular La Crosse encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis and Eastern and Western equine encephalitis - circulate unseen in forest settings, passed between sylvan mosquitoes and the local birds or rodents, but they occasionally cause serious disease in children.