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.
Encephalitis is most commonly due to viruses, such as herpes simplex, herpes zoster, cytomegalovirus, or West Nile virus. It can occur in the following ways: A virus directly infects the brain. A virus that caused an infection in the past becomes reactivated and directly damages the brain.