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“JENVAC” was in the news. What is it?

It is a mini satellite built by NASA to monitor Radio waves.

It is a trilateral military exercise between India, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

It is an aircraft carrier manufactured by Russia.

It is a vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) to be manufactured in India.

Fourth option is correct.
“JENVAC” is a vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) to be manufactured in India.

Japanese Encephalitis epidemics cases are reported from many parts of India however, it is highly endemic in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

Japanese Encephalitis-

Japanese Encephalitis (JE) is a mosquito-borne viral infection of the brain.
The virus appears to have originated from its ancestral virus in the mid-1500s in the Indonesia-Malaysia region and evolved there into different genotypes later.
As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), the disease occurs in many parts of Asia with an estimated 68,000 clinical cases every year.
JE is one kind of encephalitis which falls under a spectrum of disease called Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES).