Epidemiological features for japanese encephalitis include all of the following except -: (A) The virus infects extra-human hosts, (B) Man is an incident host, (C) Infected pigs manifestation, (D) Epidemics have been repoed in Karnataka
Answer is C. <p> Infected pigs do not manifest any ove symptoms of illness but circulate the virus so that mosquitoes get infected and can transmit the virus to man. The pigs are thus considered as &;amplifiers &;of the virus. Reference:Park&;s textbook of preventive and social medicine,K.Park,23rd edition,page no:285. <\p>