Give 1mg of Benadryl per pound such that if your dog weighs 30 pounds, you should give it 30 mg of Benadryl. Administer the medicine three times in a day.
1 VEE infection in humans is much less severe than that of WEE and EEE. 2  While adults tend to develop a flu-like illness, children tend to develop overt encephalitis. 3  Deaths are rare in humans but are common in horses. 4  There is an effective vaccine for horses but none for humans.
Cause of Encephalitis. In the United States, encephalitis causes can include enteroviruses, herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2, and arboviruses. Lyme disease can also be a cause of the disease. In the case of primary encephalitis, it is a direct viral infection of the spinal cord and brain.