Japanese Encephalitis -- India
Apart from dengue-causing _Aedes_ and malaria-causing _Anopheles_, public health experts are worried about the _Culex_ mosquito, which causes [transmits] Japanese encephalitis (JE) [virus].
National Vector Borne Disease Control programme data show that the number of people testing positive for JE [in Tamil Nadu state], a viral disease, is rising, from 11 cases in 2011 to 53 in 2015. The entire data for this year [2016] is not available, but the number of cases collected from different
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