Health officials in India are racing to contain an outbreak of Nipah virus after a teenage boy died from an infection over the weekend, the latest in a series of outbreaks in the region of the ...

The Nipah virus is a zoonotic disease that can be transmitted ... Treatment is limited to managing symptoms and supportive care. India's Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday that ...

Kerala state is said to be one of the most at-risk places globally for the Nipah virus Health authorities in India's Kerala state have issued an alert after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus.

conducted studies that concluded that Kerala and eight other states in India have a probability of occurrence of Nipah virus, George also explained. “Further, after the 2018 outbreak ...

15, 2023. [AFP] Authorities in India are scrambling to contain a rare outbreak of Nipah, a virus spread from animals to humans that causes deadly fever and has a high mortality rate. Here is a ...

In India, experts have fanned out in southern state of Kerala to collect samples of fluid from bats and fruit trees in a region where the deadly Nipah virus has killed two people and three more have ...

India has been witnessing zoonotic disease outbreaks including swine flu, Nipah virus and bird flu, threatening both animals ...

India has introduced a Crisis Management Plan (CMP) on animal health in response to the growing threat of zoonotic diseases ...

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Of the two deaths due to Nipah, the first person who died on August 30 was found to be the index case, or patient zero, from whom others caught the infection. The outbreak of the virus this year ...

The state health department had already issued a high alert in Kozhikode district earlier this week after they suspected that the two deaths were caused by the Nipah virus. Now an alert has also ...