Question
A: Specific antivirals are available to treat Japanese Encephalitis. R: Japanese Encephalitis is the most common cause of vaccine preventable encephalitis in Asia.
Answer
- [x] d) A is false but R is true
Assertion is false: no specific antiviral treatment is currently available for Japanese Encephalitis — management is purely supportive (there is no proven, licensed antiviral agent specifically effective against JE virus). Reason is true: Japanese Encephalitis is indeed the most common cause of vaccine-preventable viral encephalitis in Asia — safe and effective JE vaccines exist and are used in national immunization programmes across endemic Asian countries, making prevention (rather than antiviral treatment) the primary strategy against this disease.