Kathmandu, Dec 22: Altogether 35 people succumbed to Japanese encephalitis infection in Nepal in 2025.According to Dr Abhiyan Gautam, Chief of Child Health and Immunization Service Section in the Ministry of Health of Population, a total of 179 cases of Japanese encephalitis were reported this year out of 1,739 suspected patients.Last year, 24 people lost their lives to this mosquito-borne infection, informed Dr Gautam.Expressing concern over the increasing death toll from Japanese encephalitis annually in the country, Gautam shared that 7 people died due to this infection in 2023, one in 2017 and four in 2014.He informed that people aged...