Nipah virus (NiV) infection is a highly fatal zoonotic disease caused by a newly identified Paramyxovirus of biosafety level 4 category reported from Malaysia, Singapore, India, and Bangladesh. The virus has the ability to infect many mammalian species including fruit bats of Pteropidae and other...
Learn about Nipah virus infection (NiV), a zoonotic disease that pigs and fruit bats can transmit to humans. Nipah virus infection symptoms include vomiting, muscle aches, fever, headache, atypical pneumonia, and encephalitis. Read about treatment, compl
Since the turn of the century, outbreaks have been primarily reported in southeast Asia, the Indo-Pacific, and Australia. But the most recent outbreak is in Kerala, India. Two people have already died because of Nipah virus infection,reportsMathrubhumi. How do bats spread the Nipah virus to h...
Identifying Early Target Cells of Nipah Virus Infection in Syrian Hamsters NiV 并不是近年才发现的新病毒,关于如何治疗和预防已经有相当多的研究(甚至在印度此次爆发前五天还有相关论文发布),但大部分研究发现的抗病毒药物在体外抑制 NiV 的功能都未能在体内高效地实现。虽然在 1998 年马来西亚的疫情中流行病学分...
Nipah virus (NiV) infection is a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both animals and humans. The natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, Pteropus genus. NiV was first identified during an outbreak of disease that took place in Kampung Sungai Ni...
Nipah virus, scientifically known as Nipah henipavirus, is a bat-borne disease that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a high mortality rate. The spread of the virus normally requires direct contact with an infected source. It generally spreads between peopl...
Since September 12, 387 samples have been tested, of which six cases were positive for Nipah virus infection, while all remaining samples tested negative, said the UN's health agency. "Since September 15, no new cases have been detected," it said. ...
Human Nipah virus infection characteristically causes a severe encephalitis. ∼75% of infected persons die. Nipah virus is a zoonotic infection. It's wildlife reservoir are bats of the genus Pteropus, but because the virus attaches to the ephrin B2 receptor, which is widely distributed on mammal...
Eleven patients were confirmed to have acute Nipah-virus infection based on raised IgM in serum. Nipah virus was identified by reverse transcriptase PCR in the CSF and tissue of the patient who died. The patients were all men, with a median age of 44 years. The commonest presenting symptoms...
The work on Nipah virus was carried out under ICMR-sponsored Extramural Project (2007-05080) entitled ‘Development of diagnostics and zoo-epidemiology of Nipah virus infection in India’. The authors are thankful to ICMR and ICAR for providing facilities for Nipah virus work at HSADL, Bhopal. ...