1.   And scientists in Israel and Switzerland have found that when mice receive melatonin, their odds of surviving infection with an encephalitis virus more than double.

2.   As the season for encephalitis approaches, Florida public health workers are setting up surveillance for the mosquito-borne West Nile encephalitis virus.

3.   Chickens are used to monitor the prevalence of encephalitis viruses because the mosquitoes that spread them feed on birds.

4.   For the first time this summer, health officials in Suffolk County have found mosquitoes carrying the deadly Eastern equine encephalitis virus.

5.   For the second straight year, officials on Long Island have closed a state park because of an infestation of mosquitoes carrying the Eastern equine encephalitis virus.

6.   It transmits the encephalitis virus and has been relatively abundant in places like Manorville, Ninivaggi said.

7.   Several species common to North America, including Culex tarsalis, transmit encephalitis viruses in the United States.

8.   The city has not routinely been conducting an aggressive surveillance campaign to look for the encephalitis virus in mosquitoes or an annual spraying campaign to suppress mosquito populations.

9.   The encephalitis virus usually produces flu-like symptoms but occasionally causes quick and fatal brain inflammation, especially in the elderly.

10.   The society played a critical role in identifying the outbreak of the West Nile encephalitis virus in New York last summer, which killed seven people.