Causing extreme fever and brain swelling, the virus is thought to kill more than half of those infected. Nipah is classified as a "priority pathogen" by the World Health Organisation, due to its ...

The 24-year-old student tested positive for Nipah virus, an extremely contagious disease that is thought to kill more than half of those infected. He died in Kerala, South India, earlier this ...

The WHO has raised the alarm for a new worrying epidemic. This time, the focus of international concerns is the Marburg virus ...

Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned a future pandemic as big as Covid is “a certainty”. Given the widespread and devastating ...

A highly infectious bat-borne virus has claimed the life of a 24-year-old student sparking alarm and prompting officials to urge the public to avoid crowded areas as fears of a Nipah virus ...

Kerala witnessed the second outbreak of Nipah Virus (NiV) this year with a 24-year-old student in Malappuram succumbing to it on September 16, 2024. 267 people were traced as the victim's contacts ...

Photograph: CK Thanseer/Reuters On Sunday, yet another case of the deadly Nipah virus was confirmed in Kerala, the sixth such incident reported in the state since 2018. This time, the victim was a ...

He would have been celebrating his 24th birthday on Friday, September 27, along with his four siblings, if the deadly Nipah virus had not claimed his life on September 9. Now, his siblings are ...

WHO has said the risk of the outbreak is “very high at the national level, high at the regional level, and low at the global ...

The Nipah cases of July 21 and September 9 were hardly 10 km apart in a highly populated district. While the schoolboy was presumed to have contracted the virus after he ate a hog plum ...

Kozhikode: As many as 20 more persons who are contacts of the 24-year-old youth from Thiruvali panchayat in Malappuram who had died of Nipah on Sep 9 have tested negative for the virus Health ...