Japanese Encephalitis -- India
Already struggling to rein in the rising number of dengue and chikungunya cases, residents must now gear up to combat another mosquito-borne disease; Japanese encephalitis (JE). Though pigs and wild birds are the primary carriers of the JE virus, it is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.
Recently, the doctors at D Y Patil hospital in Pimpri had sent the blood sample of a 49-year-old woman to National Institute of Virology (NIV) for tests, and the sample tested
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