Virus kills scores of children in Odisha

A new outbreak of Japanese encephalitis killed several scores of children in the eastern state of Odisha in 2016. The Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus which has a particularly impactful presence in Asia, where it is the leading cause of viral encephalitis. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 68,000 …

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