Delivering his address at a symposium on 'Emerging Trends in Neurosciences and 23rd Annual meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences' organised by NIMHANS here, he said the vaccines have been successfully tested on animals and it would be used first at Gorakhpur district in Uttar Pradesh next year.
He said the Japanese Encephalitis, which has been claiming lives of thousands of children every year in certain pockets of the country including in Bellary District in Karnataka had posed a challenge to the health authorities. After intense research the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad has developed the Vaccine. Earlier, every year during outbreak of the disease the government used to import Vaccine from abroad to control the dreaded disease.
