Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a viral disease that infects animal and humans .it is transmitted by mosquitoes in humans. Japanese encephalitis is a disease caused by a flavivirus that affects the membranes around the brain. the symptoms are mild fever and headache or without apparent symptoms but sometimes severe disease characterized by high-grade fever, headache, neck stiffness, disorientation, coma, seizures, spastic paralysis, or death.
Transmission:
Japanese encephalitis (JE) disease spread by female mosquito culex bite in humans. This disease is spread by a virus, which mainly grows in the pig. If a female mosquito bites a person after drinking pig blood, then this disease also happens in humans.Japanese encephalitis (JE) has an incubation period is 5 to 15 days.
- Fever (38 degrees C or 100 degrees F) or above,
- Headache,
- Diarrhea,
- Muscle pain.
- Seizures,
- Changes in mental state,
- The uncontrol shake of the body part,
- Loss of the ability to speak,
- Muscle weakness, stiffness,
- The slowness of body movement,
- Difficult control of the movement of eyes,
- Difficult controls of the muscle of the face.
Cause:
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is caused by a flavivirus. and can affect both animal and human beings. the virus passed through the animals.
Diagnosis:
- blood test,
- lumbar puncture,
- a computerized tomography(CT) scan,
- a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.
Prevention:
- to reduce vector density,
- wire-netting on the windows and doors.
- use mosquito repellents.
- use mosquito nets.
- wear a full-sleeved nightdress.
- controlled by destroying mosquitoes and their eggs in their breeding places.
- filling of ditches where mosquitoes breed.
- spraying kerosene oil or DDT on the surface of ponds and lakes so kill the eggs and larva of mosquitoes.
- changing the water of room coolers.
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