On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking ...

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The husband of a Nipah virus survivor gestures at the date tree believed responsible for her infection, Faridpur, Bangladesh, September 14, 2021. (REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo) ...

KOCHI, India, July 21 (Reuters) - Authorities in southern India's Kerala state are taking preventive steps after the death of a 14-year-old boy from the Nipah virus and the identification of 60 ...

Kerala authorities are taking preventive steps after the death of a 14-year-old boy from the Nipah virus, the state’s health minister said on Sunday.

Yes, the Nipah virus is real, and it appears to have come onto the radar of the World Health Organization (WHO) during a 1999 outbreakin Malaysia. The outbreak began among some pig farmers.

Nipah, which comes from bats and causes a lethal, brain-swelling fever in humans, has been linked to the deaths of two dozen people in Kerala since its first, surprise appearance here in 2018.

The recent death of a teenage girl has spotlighted the deadly Nipah virus, raising global concerns due to its high fatality rate and lack of specific treatments. Originating in Malaysia in 1999 ...

Scientists are puzzled. Eventually, they trace the farmers’ illnesses to the Nipah virus, which swine acquire from ingesting the virus-laden excreta of bats who had encroached onto their feedlots.