What are the cause and symptoms of Japanese encephalitis?

fever, severe headache, nausea, and vomiting. As the tissue covering the brain and spinal cord (the meninges) becomes infected and swollen, the patient will develop a stiff and painful neck.

patients will continue to have extremely high fevers and their symptoms will get worse. In these cases, coma and then death occur in 7-14 days.

The most common symptoms are confusion, agitated behaviors (such as thrashing, grasping, strking out at staff), visual hallucinations and headache pains.

Encephalitis. Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, commonly caused by a viral infection. Sometimes, encephalitis can result from a bacterial infection, such as bacterial meningitis, or...

an infection of the brain caused by a virus.