Talk:Encephalitis

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My son was diagnosed with encephylitis. He is 14 and as gone into a coma. What is the prognosis for a full recovery.

Knowing some things about encephalitis, the prognosis for a full recovery is not very good I'm sorry to say.Lan Di 19:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Unless you're medics or other specialists, please stop giving prognoses on individual cases over the internet. There are so many variables at work in each case that it's impossible to make any kind of statement on the likely outcome of an individual case from the little information given. Shinji nishizono 10:32, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Wasn't there supposed to be a vaccine developed for encephalitis?Lan Di 19:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

this is nasty

encephalitis has many causes... there are vaccines for some, but not for others. they exist for japanese encephalitis, tick borne encephalitis for example. also for varicella, mumps and measles. although you could get a kind of post- or periinfectious encephalitis from some of the vaccines, as well as from contracting the "real" disease.

the infectious agent causing the encephalitis is also very important for the prognosis. eastern equine encephalitis (one of the most dangerous kinds) has a mortality of ≈75% and la crosse under 0.5%. and statistics don´t really make much difference in the individual case. even with rabies, where the death rate gets extremely close to 100%, there are some cases, where patients luckily survived. and even with la crosse, your loved one might just be one of the 0.5%.--Roenne 20:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)