Published 09/15/2023 Published September 15, 2023 last updated 09/16/2024 last updated September 16, 2024. Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year ...

Nipah is most common in fruit bats, which live in wooded areas close to the highly populated state of Kerala. It's also found in pigs In this photo from a scanning electron microscope, the Nipah virus ...

The deadly Nipah virus has broken out again in Kerala. The rare virus is transmitted by fruit bats, and those who fall ill have a low chance of survival.

After a 14-year-old boy died of Nipah virus Sunday, July 21, 2024, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, authorities tried to stop a new outbreak — just a year after the last outbreak in 2023.

Nipah virus (NiV) is zoonotic, which means it spreads to humans through animals. The first known outbreak happened in Malaysia and Singapore in 1999. Now, outbreaks are common in other parts of ...

Vaccine fast-tracked for virus that kills up to 85% of people it infects. The Nipah virus is seen by the World Health Organisation as a research priority because of its pandemic potential ...

Outbreaks of Nipah virus are alarmingly common: They occur seasonally in parts of Bangladesh and nearly as often in Kerala, where there have been six since 2018.

Nipah virus partly inspired Steven Soderbergh’s Hollywood film “Contagion.” The 2011 film, which had a star-studded cast including Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, ...

India is once again on high alert after a fresh outbreak of the Nipah virus (NiV) left a 14-year-old boy dead in the southern state of Kerala. Close contacts tested for the disease have come back ...

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 ...