© DREAMSTIME TNSArgentina's Health Ministry on Sunday reported five people have died from Western Equine Encephalitis virus amid 39 cases of infection registeredCasesof the country, with 38 of the 39 infections registered in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Entre Rios and Cordoba, and one case in the northern province of Santiago del Estero.All of the cases required hospitalization and patients, the ministry said.The virus is transmitted mainly in rural areas through the bite of infected mosquitoes.such as fever, fatigue, muscle pain and general malaise.