Scientists at The Pirbright Institute have taken a major step forward in tackling one of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

THE son of a man who died from a brain-swelling Nipah virus that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion has allegedly ...

A TEENAGE girl has died from a brain-swelling bat virus which experts fear could be the ‘next pandemic’. The 18-year-old tested positive for Nipah virus, an extremely lethal disease ...

Health officials are rushing to try and find contacts of the teenage girl after she tested positive for Nipah Virus, which is ...

Understanding Nipah Virus: Droplet Transmission and Its Lethality at 40-70%. by Colleen Fleiss on Sep 17 2023 10:23 PM. Listen to this article. 0:00 / 0:00.

Kerala has been put on alert after two cases of Nipah virus infection were confirmed, reviving fears of an outbreak that the state has battled in the past. According to state health authorities, more ...

What is the Nipah virus? ... Person-to-person transmission has been known to occur in Bangladesh and India when people have contact with someone who is sick from Nipah.

To unravel the drivers of person-to-person transmission of Nipah virus, researchers from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS, icddr,b, IEDCR, US CDC and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ...

A recent outbreak of Nipah virus in India has raised the question of whether we should start to consider it as a future threat, and look to build up our arsenal of defenses now.

"That initial transmission, from animal to human, is an accident — it's not what the virus wants to do," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University.

Nipah virus was first discovered in 1999 following an outbreak in pigs and people. Initially, infected individuals experience fever, headaches, muscle pain, vomiting and sore throat.