HOW JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS IS TRANSMITTED?
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- The JE virus is transmitted from animals, birds, pigs, particularly the birds belonging to family Ardeidae (eg. Cattle egrets, pond herons etc.) to man by Vishnu group Culex vector. Pigs play an important role in the natural cycle and serve as an amplifier host since they allow manifold virus multiplication without suffering from disease and maintain prolonged viraemia. Due to prolonged viraemia, mosquitoes get opportunity to pick up infection from pigs easily. Man is a dead end in transmission cycle due to low and short-lived viraemia. Mosquitoes do not get infection from JE patient.
