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Japanese B encephalitis
Jap·a·nese B en·ceph·a·li·tis


noun 
Definition:
 
brain inflammation: an encephalitic disease, caused by a mosquito-borne virus, that occurs mainly in Southeast Asia and can sometimes reach epidemic proportions with a resultant high mortality rate
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