Encephalitis
Posted in Diseases And Treatment on June 1st, 2009 by BioMoz – Be the first to comment
Encephalitis means severe inflammation (swelling) of brain. Encephalitis is the brain inflammation ensuring from a viral infection and also bacterial infection. It often occurs with inflammation covering brain and spinal cord (meningitis).Due to Inflammation normal blood flow in the brain changes. Also occurs due to by mistake attack of immune system on the tissue (post-infectious encephalitis). Encephalitis ranges from mild to severe but sometimes may result to permanent neurological damage and death. As such it is rare disease that occurs, though there are several thousand cases of encephalitis (also called acute viral encephalitis or aseptic encephalitis) every year, experts think that many more cases go unreported since the symptoms of Encephalitis are so mild.