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Today is the most important day of my year, #WorldEncephalitisDay 2021. #Red4WED
Encephalitis is the rare brain disease I had age 20, which was misdiagnosed as being a mental breakdown, left to worsen for 3 months in a psychiatric ward and ultimately led to me becoming (1/9)
Encephalitis is the rare brain disease I had age 20, which was misdiagnosed as being a mental breakdown, left to worsen for 3 months in a psychiatric ward and ultimately led to me becoming (1/9)
permanently disabled, both visibly and invisibly.
It may be hard to imagine if you are a newer follower that there was a time just a few years ago that I couldn’t walk, talk, read or write – and by just looking at my pictures on Instagram, you’d probably have no idea that(2/9)
It may be hard to imagine if you are a newer follower that there was a time just a few years ago that I couldn’t walk, talk, read or write – and by just looking at my pictures on Instagram, you’d probably have no idea that(2/9)
I am living with an acquired brain injury which has completely altered the direction and path of my life. I choose to speak about Encephalitis wherever I can, because I know that despite the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of cases of the disease worldwide per year(3/9)
22nd February was #WorldEncephalitisDay. @mheduNIMHANS and @encephalitis it was an opportunity to engage with medical students and professionals to talk about various aspects of #encephalitisinIndia. 1/n
We took stock of the outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome in India, the first recorded Japanese encephalitis outbreak, in 1955 in Vellore to the Nipah outbreak in 2018 in Kerela, and those that occur annually in multiple states of N and NE India with Prof. V Ravi.
Revisited the success of the Japanese encephalitis vaccine in South India, the impact of vaccine shortages and understood how mosquito (vector) behaviour influences control measures with Dr. Ravikumar
