Kerala state's health officials have issued an alarm following the death of a 14-year-old boy from the Nipah virus. He is from the town of Pandikkad, and everyone who came into contact with him ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...