Facts you should know about Japanese Encephalitis

Facts you should know about Japanese Encephalitis

Japanese encephalitis may be a virus within the flavivirus family. It passes through a culex mosquito. It can also infect pigs and horses along with human but the effects are different from humans. Horses get encephalitis and pigs go through miscarriages.

It spreads to people by using a host of an epidemic. The natural hosts can be wild birds and the vectors are likely to be the mosquitoes. It won’t cause death but sure will pass it on to someone else.

An animal acts as a carrier of the virus after getting infected by the mosquitoes. It is obvious that there will be other mosquitoes that lie on this carrier (animal) and these mosquitoes will spread the virus on to some other animals. Rural areas get infected the most by this virus and the people who stay in these areas need to follow Japanese encephalitis preventionmethods. This will usually affect the childrens the most and the adults will get immune to this virus as they grow old.

Facts:

● Encephalitis means brain inflammation that is a devastating neurological condition.

● Anyone can suffer from encephalitis regardless of age, sex, or ethnicity.

● Every minute one person is getting affected by encephalitis. Such as almost 5Lakh adults and children per annum.

● The symptoms vary but the main symptoms will be like illness, drowsiness, headache, no talking, and losing control of your movements.

● There are maximum death rates.

● If there any survivors they get affected by brain injury which leads to fatigue, epilepsy, memory loss, changes in personality.

● It is a wonder that 78% of the people in world are not aware of such encephalitis.

● February 22nd is declared as the world encephalitis day to honor the one who got suffered from this disease.

● Now over 150 million people get to know about encephalitis day through social media since it is launched in 2014.

Getting a Japanese encephalitis vaccine is important along with taking precautions.