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 ...

Nipah is an infection which can be transmitted to humans from animals. There is no vaccination for the virus which has a mortality rate of 70%. Did India hide its first cases of Zika 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 ...

As Kerala is already fighting a tough battle with COVID-19 cases, accounting for more than 50% of daily cases in India, a sudden outbreak of Nipah virus has created more tension in the state.

Periodical outbreaks of Nipah virus has been noted in eastern India also. The bat species called as Pteropus have been identified as the natural reservoirs for Nipah virus. These species of bats ...

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 ...

The health minister said that ICMR and WHO had conducted studies and found that Kerala and eight other states in India have the probability of Nipah occurrence. Six cases of the Nipah virus have ...

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

Cases of the Nipah virus have been reported in some parts of India and there is no treatment for the same. However, a team has found a Covishield-like vaccine to potentially reduce the risk of the ...

Nipah virus is a serious public health threat in several countries in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines. In the wake of the Nipah virus infection ...