The school failed to ensure that the students take precautions against ticks and allowed them to walk through dense woods known to be a risk area for tick-borne encephalitis and other tick- and insect-transmitted illnesses, Munn's attorneys said.

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Ms Brown from Sense about Science says that if the regulator doesn't think "continuing to market useless homeopathic travel 'vaccinations' for diphtheria, malaria, polio, typhoid and encephalitis" and potentially putting lives at risk is not reckless then there's little point having regulation.

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Munn's attorneys say she suffered insect bites that led to tick-borne encephalitis in 2007 when she was in the ninth grade, leaving her unable to speak and brain damaged.

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Dahl's eldest daughter Olivia died aged seven after catching measles, which progressed to become encephalitis.

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Malaysia's farmers, however, now have another battle on their hands with outbreaks of Japanese encephalitis and of another virus, both carried by pigs.

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On March 20th, Malaysia's army was deployed to kill thousands of pigs in an effort to contain outbreaks of Japanese encephalitis.

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