How to improve treatment of childhood encephalitis in South-East Asia

Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain tissue that affects both children and adults and is particularly prevalent in South-East Asia. The scientists and physicians involved in the South East Asia encephalitis (SEAe) project, coordinated by the Institut Pasteur in Paris, in collaboration with the Pasteur Network, demonstrated the importance of prevention and rapid, appropriate treatment for patients with encephalitis. The results particularly suggest that vaccination against Japanese encephalitis alone could reduce the prevalence of the disease by a third. The findings of this study, conducted in four countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar), were published in The Lancet Global Health.

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