A 9-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department with a high fever, chills, headache, and nausea. She vomits at admission, where her temperature is 104.2°F, and she begins to hallucinate. A CT scan reveals encephalitis in one temporal lobe. Which of the following causal agents is most likely?

  •  West Nile virus
  •  St. Louis encephalitis
  •   Polio virus
  •   Herpes simplex virus 1
  •  California encephalitis