Japanese Encephalitis Vaccination

Touchwood Pharmacy offers the Japanese Encephalitis vaccination at their clinics in Sydenham, Streatham and Northampton. Find out if you should be vaccinated.

The vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis is just one of the precautions you may need to take if you are travelling to Southeast Asia.  This is a high-risk area for the illness and the vaccine for Japanese encephalitis is very effective and will protect 9 out of 10 people who have it.

Japanese Encephalitis is a disease spread by mosquito bites and is characterised by some very unpleasant symptoms which can progress later into swelling around the brain followed by coma. 

Japanese Encephalitis is not that well-known but it is a severe and serious disease.  Japanese Encephalitis is caused by a virus which is spread by mosquitoes and it can cause inflammation of the brain or encephalitis.