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Crowd control & contact tracing stepped up, masks mandatory as health worker tests positive for Nipah in Kerala
Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on September 13, 2023
A 24-year-old healthcare worker at a private hospital in Kerala's Kozhikode district tested positive for Nipah fever on Wednesday, a day after four people, including two who have since passed away, were confirmed to be infected with the virus. The health worker's samples were tested at National Institute of Virology, Pune,...
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Published on September 13, 2023 - 02:35
Kerala government strengthens measures to stop the spread of Nipah virus | WION
Alarms are ringing in India over yet another deadly virus. The southern state of Kerala has reported four cases of the Nipah virus out of which two succumb to the infection. Now Nipah is a zoonotic virus which means it is transmitted to people from animals. It mainly affects animals such as bats, pigs, dogs and horses. Though the infection does not spread as quickly as COVID-19 the case fatality rate or the proportion of deaths among those who test positive is very high as per the World Health Organization.
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