RAF1 and eastern equine encephalitis: Furthermore, Yen et al. [47] used computational analyses to predict that miR-92a in A. aegypti binds to the positive-sense genomic viral RNA encoding the non-structural protein 5 (NS-5) of dengue virus I. Although C. pipiens does not transmit dengue, it is an important vector of other positive-sense RNA arboviruses that cause West Nile fever, Eastern equine encephalitis, and St.