/PRNewswire/ In line with its mission of being Singapore s leading university hospital, the National University Hospital (NUH) is launching its highly.
High mortality rate, neurological consequences – encephalitis is ravaging South East Asia, and particularly Japanese encephalitis, a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes. It alone represents one third of cases. Vaccination could reduce its prevalence by the same proportion. If we add other infections for which a vaccine exists, a total of 42% of cases could be avoided. This is one of the main conclusions of a large study coordinated by Institut Pasteur and published in July in the Lancet Global Health (1). Kevin Bleakley, scientist and researcher at the Inria Saclay Centre, performed the statistical processing of the data. As he explains, however, we still do not know everything about this illness.