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Get in the Know: Japanese Encephalitis
+How do people get Japanese encephalitis?
-By the bite of mosquitoes infected with the Japanese encephalitis virus.
+How is Japanese encephalitis transmitted?
-By rice field breeding mosquitoes (primarily the Culex tritaeniorhynchus group) that become infected with Japanese encephalitis virus (a flavivirus antigenically related to St. Louis encephalitis virus)….
+Could you get the Japanese encephalitis from another person?
-No, Japanese encephalitis virus is NOT transmitted from person-to-person. For example, you cannot get the virus from touching or kissing a person who has the disease, or from a health care worker who has treated someone with the disease.
+Could you get Japanese encephalitis from animals other than -domestic pigs, or from insects other than mosquitoes?
No. Only domestic pigs and wild birds are carriers of the Japanese encephalitis virus.
+What are the symptoms of Japanese encephalitis?
-Mild infections occur without apparent symptoms other than fever with headache. More severe infection is marked by quick onset, headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, occasional convulsions (especially in infants) and spastic (but rarely flaccid) paralysis.
