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 ...

The death of a 24 year old student in Kerala's Malappuram has sparked concerns around the deadly virus Nipah. Kerala Health ...

Nipah virus in Kerala: Health Minister confirms the first case of the infection in a 14-year-old boy from Malappuram district. Read on to know more about the virus and its symptoms. There is no ...

A health worker walks past Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Nipah virus mobile testing facility at a government ...

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.

Kerala battles with the sudden outbreak of Nipah virus while combating COVID-19 in the state. The incubation period of this virus is two weeks and the fatality rate is 40-80%, as per WHO.

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 ...

Of the two deaths due to Nipah, the first person who died on August 30 was found to be the index case, or patient zero, from whom others caught the infection. The outbreak of the virus this year ...

There is no specific antiviral treatment for Nipah virus infection. Therefore, supportive care and taking care of the symptoms is essential. Amid the massive outbreak of deadly Nipah virus in ...

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 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 ...