No budget for JE vaccine, health ministry spends millions on unproven ayurvedic tonic

JE virus has already killed 15 people this year, and most of the deceased are unvaccinated.

At least 15 people, mostly unvaccinated, have died of infection with the Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus in the past one month. The virus is the number one killer disease spread by a vector, the Culex mosquito.