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Answer:

Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain caused by viral and bacterial infections. It's symptoms include memory loss, confusion, loss of certain body functions and damage to brain tissue.

It is dangerous because:

• It directly affects the brain, the organ that controls all other organs and helps us to think and reason become dysfunctional.

• It's treatment is also difficult even if it is caused by bacteria.  

• The swelling can cause irreversible damage to the brain even before the causal factor for the encephalitis can be treated.

• Even when treated, a person can die because the function of the body may become so impaired by swelling that the brain simply shuts down all systems of the body.

• Children under the age of five and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to complications caused by Encephalitis.

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