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A total of 193 human cases of SLEV disease were reported, including 148 cases of neuroinvasive disease. A median of 10 cases were reported per year. The national average annual incidence of reported neuroinvasive disease cases was 0.03 per million. States with the highest average annual incidence of reported neuroinvasive disease cases were Arkansas, Arizona, and Mississippi. No large outbreaks occurred during the reporting period. The most commonly reported clinical syndromes were encephalitis (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 116, 60%), febrile illness (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 35, 18%), and meningitis (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> = 25, 13%). Median age of cases was 57 years (range 2\u201389 years). The case fatality rate was 6% (11\/193) and all deaths were among patients aged &gt; 45 years with neuroinvasive disease. Nonhuman surveillance data indicated wider SLEV activity in California, Nevada, and Florida than the human data alone suggested. 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