Japanese-B encephalitis in South India

Cases of Japanese-B encephalitis were identified in Madras, India, 1955-56. The film explains via detailed intertitles how the disease was recognised with the help of the Christian Medical College Hospital at Vellore (in Tamil Nadu) and the Virus Research Centre run by the Indian Council of Medical Research / Rockefeller Foundation. There are general views of Vellore. Footage is captured of the typical breeding grounds for the disease carrying mosquitoes, typically rice fields and traditional water storage. Baiting traps for the tsetse flies are set around the cattle and other livestock and subsequently collected. Cattle sheds, sugar cane fields and betel nurseries are also sites where the mosquitos which carry Japanese-B encephalitis. Acknowledgements and end credits.