Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis is only a mildly contagious disease. Incubation period is approximately five days. Birds and mosquitoes commonly spread it. Symptoms include but are not limited to, nausea, vomiting, cough, sore throat, high fever, general malaise, and pain in legs and lower back. In children there can be an inflammation of the brain, like in meningitis.
Antibiotics have little if no effect, supportive care of the symptoms is the only treatment.
Smallpox, Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers are viruses that grow and reproduce by forcing the host to produce additional viruses. They are very fragile and very difficult to grow. Canned foods with swollen and bulging packages should be a clue that it is possibly spoiled. The onset of symptoms usually occurs within 72 hours. Staphylococcal Enterotoxins is a toxin that is ingested and causes food poisoning.