The Japanese encephalitis virus is a virus from the family Flaviviridae.

Signs and symptoms Japanese encephalitis has an incubation period of 5 to 15 days and the vast majority of infections are asymptomatic only 1 in 250 infections develop into encephalitis.

This transcriptomic study provides a hypothesis of neuroinflammation and a new lead in development of appropriate therapeutic against Japanese encephalitis.

Residents of rural areas in endemic locations are at highest risk Japanese encephalitis does not usually occur in urban areas.

Some strains of MHV cause a progressive demyelinating encephalitis in mice which has been used as a murine model for multiple sclerosis.

The natural hosts of the Japanese encephalitis virus are birds, not humans, and many believe the virus will therefore never be completely eliminated.

The differential diagnosis in a case of suspected human rabies may initially include any cause of encephalitis, in particular infection with viruses such as herpesviruses, enteroviruses, and arboviruses such as West Nile virus.

The low percentage of immunized children was a consequence of the crises that followed the case of one child from Sarajevo who was infected with encephalitis after being administered a live vaccine of Australian origin distributed by UNICEF.