New Delhi— Authorities in India's southern Kerala state are racing to contain an outbreak of theNipah virus. The virus, which is not related to thecoronavirus behind the current global pandemicand is far more deadly, killed a 12-year-old boy in Kerala over the weekend, prompting stepped-up...
Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala state, India amidst of COVID-19 pandemicdoi:10.1101/2021.12.09.21267278Pragya YadavRima R SahayB AnukumarKV Keerthi
The Nipah virus (NiV), a member of the Paramyxoviridae family, is notorious for its high fatality rate in humans. The RNA polymerase machinery of NiV, comprising the large protein L and the phosphoprotein P, is essential for viral replication. This study
(with death rates ranging from 60%–100%) was substantially higher than that of the M genotype (39.6%), in which 105 deaths were reported from 265 cases during the lone outbreak with NiV-M during 1998 (Harcourt et al., 2005; Hauser et al., 2021; Liew et al., 2022; Sharma et al...
Furthermore, human-to-human transmission of NiV in India and Bangladesh shows that a large human outbreak is possible (Chadha et al., 2006; Gurley et al., 2007). There is also concern about the potential to weaponize henipaviruses (Luby, 2013). There are no licensed human vaccines or ...
Kozhikode District Medical Officer Dr.V.Jayasree has said that the fever death of Mujeeb,a native of Meppayur in Medical College Hospital is not that of Nipah. The lab result confirmed it was H1 N1 fever. Mujeeb’s wife, undergoing treatment for fever is also tested positive for H1N1,...
Background In June 2019, Nipah virus (NiV) infection was detected in a 21-year-old male (index case) of Ernakulum, Kerala, India. This study was undertaken to determine if NiV was in circulation in Pteropus species ( spp) in those areas where the index case had visit history in 1 ...
No new cases of Nipah virus have been detected in India since September 15, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, following an outbreak earlier in the month that caused two deaths. Ad Nipah has no vaccine and afatality rateranging from 40 to 75 percent, according to the WHO. ...
Nipah infection leads to death by acute encephalitis in most cases as the virus replicates best in the tissues where it is easy for the virus to enter the cells. The virus does replicate to a small degree in the vasculature, the blood vessels which provide a route for the virus to travel...