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Encephalitis

March 2023

  • A female scientist working on MRI brain scans.

    Early diagnosis of brain damage is key for recovery

  • ‘There is something strangely meditative about it all’ … Simon having a brain scan at The Walton Centre, Liverpool.

    How to have a healthy brain
    ‘I have a hunch I was left damaged’: what would a scan reveal about my brain?

March 2022

  • Close up photo of a culex mosquito on a person's skin

    Full Story
    Japanese encephalitis: everything you need to know

  • A mosquito leaves drips of blood after drawing blood from an arm

    Victorian man dies from Japanese encephalitis as authorities warn people to avoid mosquitos

August 2021

  • Lucy Dawson, disabled model and encephalitis survivor, at Hartsholme country park near Lincoln

    The outspoken
    Lucy Dawson: the model who got a mystery headache, a misdiagnosis – and a new mission in life

    When she began experiencing head pain as a student, Dawson was diagnosed with a breakdown and sectioned. She actually had encephalitis. Five years on, now paralysed in one leg, she is speaking out for disability rights

March 2021

  • “Being a stammerer has been one of the most formative things in my life,” says Maggie O’Farrell.

    Childhood brush with death helped make me a better novelist, says Maggie O’Farrell

    Writer says encephalitis left her with a stammer that developed her sense of grammar and broadened her vocabulary

June 2019

  • Children with acute encephalitis syndrome, at the Sri Krishna hospital in Muzaffarpur district, east Bihar, on 19 June

    How lychees are linked to encephalitis risk in malnourished children

  • a worker picks lychees from a tree in india

    At least 31 children in India killed by toxin in lychees

March 2015

  • Professor Tom Solomon

    Meet the man leading Britain's fight against Ebola

    From his lab in Liverpool, Professor Tom Solomon is heading UK efforts to combat Ebola. He’s hopeful we’ll have a treatment and vaccine within a year. But that’s only the beginning of our worries…

February 2014

  • Simon Hattenstone

    It's World Encephalitis Day. But to survivors like me today is Look After Your Brain Day

    Simon Hattenstone
    Simon Hattenstone: Encephalitis left me in horrific pain for years – but I was one of the lucky ones. Today let's start giving our brains the care they deserve

September 2010

  • Claire Rytina

    A mother, lost and found

    Six years ago, Claire Robertson woke from a coma, surrounded by her husband and children. She had no idea who they were. Decades of family life had vanished from her memory, destroyed by a viral infection

May 2008

  • Man lying on the grass on Hampstead Heath

    Germany gears up for tick fever

    Tick season in Germany results in flare-ups of Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis

November 2005

  • Patients recruited for brain disorder study

    Research to improve diagnosis of encephalitis - brain inflammation that can lead to seizures, long-term illness and death - was announced by the Health Protection Agency yesterday.

September 2005

  • Guardian weekly outlook on international development
    Dying for want of a vaccine

  • Encephalitis epidemic kills more than 1,000

August 2005

  • Disease toll reaches 253 in India

    Encephalitis killed another 41 people in northern India at the weekend, with the mosquito-borne disease showing little sign of abating after claiming a total of 253 lives in nearly three weeks, an Uttar Pradesh government official has said.

June 2005

  • Tick off the warning signs

    Up to a million British tourists run the risk of contracting the potentially deadly disease tick-borne encephalitis when travelling in central and eastern Europe this summer.

July 2003

  • Mosquito plague kills 110 in India

    The mosquito-borne disease encephalitis has killed 110 children in Andhra Pradesh, southern India, in the past six weeks, health officials said.

February 2002

  • 'We try not to panic every time he sneezes'

    When Suzanne Warr's two-year-old son began suffering convulsions, it took two weeks for him to be diagnosed with viral encephalitis.

February 2001

  • Wonder drug not for the poor

    Biotechnology company Acambis is set to announce startling results from trials of a pioneering vaccine for deadly Japanese encephalitis.

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