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Recent reports of Nipah virus (NIV) infections in Kerala state in India have attracted global attention. Since it was first reported in August (2023), there have been six cases, two of whom have ...

The Nipah virus outbreak this year was in Kozhikode district, which neighbours Wayanad, and six persons were infected, of whom two had died. The latest outbreak in Kerala's Kozhikode district ...

The effects of viral infection vary from acute respiratory distress to fatal encephalitis. There are currently no approved therapeutics or vaccines against Nipah virus, and there is growing ...

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.

Health officials in the south Indian state of Kerala say nine people have died in confirmed and suspected cases of the deadly Nipah virus. Three victims have tested positive for the virus in the ...

Researchers in the US have started a clinical trial of a vaccine against Nipah virus, a serious infection caught from animals that has a fatality rate of between 40% and 70%, developed by mRNA ...

While there are no confirmed cases of jeilongviruses causing diseases in humans, their close relation to henipaviruses (which includes the deadly Nipah virus) suggests the possibility of them ...

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 ...