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The nurse who had recovered from Nipah virus infection died of cardiac arrest at a private hospital in West Bengal’s Barasat on Thursday, news agency PTI reported quoting a state health department official. She had been in a prolonged coma, and later developed a lung infection. She had been taken off ventilator support at the…
Image used for representative purpose only KOLKATA: The 25-year-old female nurse infected by the Nipah virus succumbed to secondary infections on Thursday evening, after a 37-day-long battle with the infection and the complications caused by the virus at Barasat Hospital. The male nurse, who was also found infected by the virus and was discharged from…
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sought to reassure the public over India’s latest Nipah virus outbreak, saying the risk of spread remains “low” and that there is no need for travel or trade restrictions following the confirmation of two cases in West Bengal.The cases were reported from North 24 Parganas district, an…
Nipah virus is a global concern right now after two cases were identified from West Bengal. The virus spreads from animals, mainly fruit bats, to humans, sometimes through contaminated food like raw date palm sap, and other times from one person to another. And once it spreads between humans, it can be deadly fast. With…
Nipah virus in India is rare, scary, and strangely ignored. Most people in India have heard of dengue, malaria, COVID, maybe even Zika. But say “Nipah virus” and you’ll usually get a blank look. And that’s odd, because Nipah is one of the deadliest viruses we know. It’s not new. And it has shown up…
Health officials have reported a number of cases of Nipah virus infection in India’s West Bengal, leading to stepped-up surveillance at airports and border crossings in parts of Asia. At the time of reporting, five cases have been confirmed and about 100 close contacts are in quarantine as part of containment measures. Several of the…
Nipah fear grows as cases emerge from West Bengal. So far, two cases have been identified. The health condition of one of the two nurses who tested positive for the Nipah virus has improved, while the other continues to remain “very critical”, a senior official of the West Bengal Health Department told news agency PTI….
Nipah cases are back in the news. Two cases of the virus have been identified in West Bengal, reports have said quoting the National Institute of Virology in Pune. Following the emergence of the cases, 90 people, who were in close contact with the patients, have been traced and are under lens.Of the two patients,…
KOLKATA: The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, has confirmed Nipah, a viral disease with high mortality, in both samples sent from Bengal. The samples were taken from two nurses of a Barasat hospital whose condition remain critical. A house staff at a Burdwan hospital, who came in close contact with one of the nurses,…
A novel experimental vaccine against the nipah virus has succeeded in its first major test in humans; it has been shown to be tolerated well by the immune system and to stimulate an immune response in healthy adults. Though this is the earliest stages of testing, there’s tentative hope that more robust shielding will be…
