Enzootic Encephalomyelitis Virus

Medical Condition:
Enzootic Encephalomyelitis Virus

A species in the genus Bornavirus, family BORNAVIRDAE, causing a rare and usually fatal encephalitic disease in horses and other domestic animals and possibly deer. Its name derives from the city in Saxony where the condition was first described in 1894, but the disease occurs in Europe, N. Africa, and the Near East.