Re-emergence of Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, India: a global health concerndoi:10.1080/23744235.2024.2334853Prakasini SatapathyMahalaqua Nazli KhatibShilpa GaidhaneQuazi Syed ZahiruddinSarvesh RustagiNeelima KukretiRachana MehtaRanjit SahInfectious Diseases...
What is Nipah virus?The Nipah virus was first discovered following an outbreak that caused more than 100 deaths. India's southern state of Kerala is currently facing an outbreak of the rare, but potentially serious Nipah virus with at least two deaths so far, according to local reports. ...
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...
A new viral outbreak isspreadingin the state of Kerala, in southern India. It’s called the Nipah virus and its existence wasn’t even known about until 1999. Nipah is spread by pigs and bats, the latter of which are coming into closer contact with humans due to climate change. Here’s...
NEW DELHI, May 25 (Xinhua) -- India Friday sought Australia's help to "neutralize" the Nipah virus in humans, as the outbreak has claimed 12 lives in southern state of Kerala. In a letter to the Queensland state government in Australia, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), the co...
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
NEW DELHI, June 4 (Xinhua) -- A 23-year-old man admitted in a private hospital in southern India state of Kerala was found tested positive for the deadly Nipah virus, officials said Tuesday. The case was detected in Ernakulam district, about 213 km north of Thiruvananthapuram, the capita...
Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly lethal zoonotic paramyxovirus that poses a severe threat to humans due to its high morbidity and the lack of viable countermeasures. Vaccines are the most crucial defense against NiV infections. Here, a recombinant chimpanze
NEW DELHI, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A bat-infested well in a house in India's southern state of Kerala's Kozhikode district has been identified as the likely epicenter of the third outbreak of Nipah virus in this country since 2001, health officials said Wednesday. ...
NEW DELHI, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Nipah virus outbreak in India has risen to 12, with the death of two more persons in the southern state of Kerala in the past 48 hours. "One of the two died in intensive care at a hospital in Kozhikode district Thursday. The deceas...