The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 62, 677-685,
Copyright, 1935, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES
Carl Tenbroeck M.D.1,
E. Weston Hurst M.D.1, and
Erich Traub V.M.D.1
1 From the Department of Animal and Plant Pathology of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J.
Equine encephalomyelitis of the eastern type is a disease of the late summer and fall and cases are found in greatest numbers near salt marshes. The epidemiological findings are against its transmission by contact and favor the view that it is insect borne. Although virus can be demonstrated in the blood of infected horses it is present for a relatively short time, and the possibility that the disease is not primarily an infection of horses but that it is transmitted to them from another host is considered.
Submitted on July 30, 1935