The government has ordered immediate vaccinations for 300, 000 people and 500, 000 pigs hoping to halt the deadly Japanese encephalitis virus, news reports said Thursday.
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Government health experts initially said it was the Japanese encephalitis virus, but later another strain that appeared related to the Hendra virus was found to be killing people.
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Officials refused to confirm details of the incident, but reports said the Japanese encephalitis virus had been left uncovered in a lab at the Queensland University of Technology.
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Recently whole genome microarray research of neurons infected with the Japanese Encephalitis virus has shown that neurons play an important role in their own defense against Japanese Encephalitis infection.
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Government health experts said the outbreak began with the deaths of 15 people last October who succumbed to the Japanese encephalitis virus, which is transmitted by the Culex mosquito.
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Government health experts initially said the outbreak began with the deaths of 15 people last October who succumbed to the Japanese encephalitis virus, which is transmitted by the Culex mosquito.
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Government health experts initially said it was the Japanese encephalitis virus, but later another strain that appeared related to the more rare Hendra virus was found to be killing people.
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Farmhands clutching wooden planks moved from pen to pen clubbing pigs to death as false rumors galloped across Malaysia on Friday that the lethal Japanese encephalitis virus can be contracted by inhaling.
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Pig farmers abandoned their homes in February after health officials warned that they could be bitten by the Culex mosquito, which carries the Japanese encephalitis virus, originally thought to be the culprit.
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The " Culex vishnui Theobald " mosquito species belongs to a sub-type that also includes two other carriers of the Japanese encephalitis virus-" Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles " and " Culex pseudovishnui Colless ".
