{"id":2589,"date":"2009-09-09T02:16:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2009-09-09T02:16:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:16:53","slug":"eee-wee-and-vee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/eee-wee-and-vee\/","title":{"rendered":"EEE, WEE, AND VEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px;\">Eastern, Western, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis (EEE, WEE, and VEE) are arboviruses&#8211;meaning they are transmitted by blood-feeding insects or ticks&#8211;and these pathogens can cause fatal neurologic disease in horses. EEE, WEE, and VEE are all alphaviruses that are a part of the Togavirus family (<em>Togaviridae<\/em>), and collectively they are termed the equine viral encephalomyelitides. West Nile virus is also an arbovirus, but it is a member of the\u00a0<em>Flaviridae<\/em> family, which is named after yellow fever virus.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-15abx38dc5x111663&amp;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 11px;\"><strong>Get more great articles like this by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-15abx33ee0x111663&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">subscribing to\u00a0<em>The Horse<\/em> magazine<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern, Western, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis (EEE, WEE, and VEE) are arboviruses&#8211;meaning they are transmitted by blood-feeding insects or ticks&#8211;and these pathogens can cause fatal neurologic disease in horses. EEE, WEE, and VEE are all alphaviruses that are a part of the Togavirus family (Togaviridae), and collectively they are termed the equine viral encephalomyelitides. West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}