Paper II — 2023 July (Supplementary) (2019 Scheme) — Q15

Paper II

2023 July (Supplementary) (2019 Scheme) · 100 marks · 180 min

Question

Write the mode of transmission of Japanese encephalitis.

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Answer

Japanese encephalitis is transmitted via the bite of an infected Culex mosquito (particularly Culex tritaeniorhynchus), with pigs and wading/ardeid birds acting as the amplifying reservoir hosts in the natural transmission cycle; humans are incidental, dead-end hosts.

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