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Encephalitis on Taiwan^*

V. Animal and Bird Serology

San-Pin Wang, J. Thomas Grayston AND In-Ho Chu

Sera obtained from a variety of domestic and wild animals and birds on Taiwan were tested for neutralizing and hemagglutination-inhibition antibodies with Japanese encephalitis virus antigen. Swine not only on Taiwan, but also on the Pescadore Islands and Okinawa, had a very high incidence of infection (80 to 100%). Antibody was found less frequently in all other species tested, but was present in a portion of the water buffalo, cats, rats, bandicoots, bats, herons and munias, and in one or two of several other species.

^* This study was supported in part by contract Nonr-2121(07) between the Office of Naval Research and the University of Chicago, and in part by funding under Public Law 480, Section 104(c). The opinions and assertions contained herein are those of the authors and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Navy Department or the Naval Service at large.

Present address: Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 5, Washington.

NAMRU-2 fellow from the Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Soo Do Medical College, Seoul, Korea.