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- In the backdrop of a number of death this year in Bihar due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), the Union government has deployed a multi-speciality team in the State.
- Bihar has registered a rise in cases of AES in Muzaffarpur and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Gaya district.
- Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) including Japanese Encephalitis (JE) is a group of clinically similar neurologic manifestation caused by several different viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasites, spirochetes, chemical/ toxins etc.
- Japanese encephalitis is caused by Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). JEV is a mosquito-borne flavivirus, and belongs to the same genus as dengue, yellow fever and West Nile viruses.
- The first case of Japanese encephalitis viral disease (JE) was documented in 1871 in Japan.



