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"NIPAH" VIRUS NEW UPDATE :- Kerala Nine People Have Died (HOW TO PROTECT THIS "NIPAH" VIRUS SEE VIDEO)" NIPOLA VIRUS"
"NIPAH" VIRUS
WHAT IS "NIPAH" VIRUS
As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), Nipah Virus is a newly emerging zoonosis that causes a severe disease in both animals and humans. This virus was first identified in Malaysia and Singapore in 1998. At that time, it was primarily caused in pigs and through them got transferred to humans. Nipah Virus infected as many as 265 people then, out of which 40 per cent were taken under intensive care due to the infection having spread severely. As quoted by the WHO, the natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, Pteropus genus.
Health officials in the south Indian state of Kerala say nine people have died in confirmed and suspected cases of the deadly Nipah virus.
Three victims have tested positive for the virus in the past fortnight. The results from the remaining six samples will be available later on Monday.
Twenty-five others have been hospitalised with symptoms of the infection in Kozhikode, officials said.
Nipah is an infection which can be transmitted to humans from animals.
There is no vaccination for the virus which has a mortality rate of 70%.
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