What is Japanese encephalitis?
Japanese Encephalitis (JE) is by the “Japanese encephalitis virus-induced, serious tropical disease that occurs mainly in East and Southeast Asia.
The virus, an arbovirus, which belongs to such as the causal agent of yellow fever to the Flaviviridae that infects the brain, causing inflammation and swelling and can lead to permanent brain damage and death. In Southeast Asia, there are regular epidemics during the rainy season, hundreds of which, in countries without an effective vaccination program to thousands of victims claim.
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