The following year, Kerala put more than 300 people under surveillance after a man was diagnosed with the virus. The state had another outbreak in 2021, claiming the life of a 12-year-old boy.

Nipah virus (NiV) is zoonotic, which means it spreads to humans through animals. The first known outbreak happened in Malaysia and Singapore in 1999. Now, outbreaks are common in other parts of ...

Nipah virus, which can rapidly infect and kill members of a community, is carried by bats. ... A man who runs a local tea stall drinks raw date palm sap in Faridpur, Bangladesh.

Kerala Health Minister Veena George confirmed that a man who recently died in Malappuram was infected with Nipah virus. The outbreak in Malappuram has been contained, and restrictions have been ...

I ntrepid microbe hunters have discovered 20 new viruses lurking in the bat populations of the orchards of southwestern China ...

The Nipah virus is on the World Health Organization's short list of diseases that have pandemic potential and therefore pose the greatest public health risk. With a fatality rate at about 70%, it ...

Nipah virus, which can rapidly infect and kill members of a community, is carried by bats. Exactly how does it cross over into humans? Researchers in Bangladesh are trying to find out.

Nipah virus, which can rapidly infect and kill members of a community, is carried by bats. ... A 50-year-old man sits outside his home beside a rice paddy. His name is Khokon.

Health workers wearing protective gears shift a man with symptoms of Nipah virus to an isolation ward at a government hospital in Kozhikode in southern Indian state of Kerala on Saturday, Sept. 16 ...

Bangladesh reported on Monday its first fatality this year from the brain-damaging Nipah virus when a man died after drinking raw date juice. The virus, transmitted to humans through contact with ...

A state in southern India is taking measures to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus after two people died from the rare and often deadly disease, shutting schools and testing hundreds to ...

Nipah virus, which can rapidly infect and kill members of a community, is carried by bats. ... A 50-year-old man sits outside his home beside a rice paddy. His name is Khokon.