Japanese Encephalitis Photos

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Photos of the Disease

West Nile Virus (WNV) is a member of the Japanese encephalitis virus antigenic complex, which includes several medically important viruses associated with human encephalitis: Japanese encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, Murray Valley encephalitis, and Kunjin, an Australian subtype of WNV.

A few samples from the Public Health Image Library

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Photo of a Mosquito that Spreads this Disease

The virus causing Japanese encephalitis is transmitted by mosquitoes belonging to the Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Culex vishnui groups, which breed particularly in flooded rice fields. The virus circulates in ardeid birds (herons and egrets). Pigs are amplifying hosts, in that the virus reproduces in pigs and infects mosquitoes that take blood meals, but does not cause disease. The virus tends to spill over into human populations when infected mosquito populations build up explosively and the human biting rate increases (these culicines are normally zoophilic, i.e. they prefer to take blood meals from animals). Courtesy of WHO

More mosquito photos can be found on the Public Health Image Library site.

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Images of People Affected by the Disease

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Additional Images and Regulations

• Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
  • Regulations for using PHIL images
    

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