Japanese Encephalitis Virus as Cause of Acute Encephalitis, Bhutan

Abstract

In 2011, Bhutan’s Royal Centre for Disease Control began Japanese encephalitis (JE) surveillance at 5 sentinel hospitals throughout Bhutan. During 2011–2018, a total of 20 JE cases were detected, indicating JE virus causes encephalitis in Bhutan. Maintaining JE surveillance will help improve understanding of JE epidemiology in this country.

Keywords

• Japanese encephalitis
• vector-borne disease
• Bhutan
• acute encephalitis syndrome
• meningitis/encephalitis
• vector-borne infections