Alarm over the Nipah virus in India: two people died

Speaking to reporters in the capital New Delhi, Indian Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya confirmed that there were deaths due to the Nipah virus in Kerala. Mandaviya claimed that two deaths in the Kozhikode region of the state were caused by Nipah virus.

Experts have been sent to the region to assist the state government and study the spread of the virus.

The Kerala health department reported two “unnatural deaths” in Kozhikode yesterday. It was also reported that samples taken from four people believed to have contracted the virus in Kerala were sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune for testing.

ABOUT NIPAH VIRUS

Nipah virus is transmitted by fruit bats. The virus can cause flu-like symptoms, such as fever, headache, sore throat, muscle pain, nausea and vomiting.

Nipah outbreak was recorded twice in Kerala in 2018 and 2019 in Kerala. In 2021, it was reported in the press that a child died from the virus.

Just as the virus can be transmitted to humans through bats and pigs, it is also transmitted from person to person.

Nipah virus, a viral infection that causes disease in both animals and humans, began with an epidemic in the Nipah region of Malaysia. (AA)