Nipah, a virus carried primarily by certain types of fruit bats and pigs, can also be transmitted directly from person to person as well as through contaminated food. FMTNews NipahVirus Virus Outbreak
Health officers attend to patients in India where a Nipah outbreak in 2018 killed 17 people.
“Twenty years have passed since its discovery, but the world is still not adequately equipped to tackle the global health threat posed by Nipah virus,” said Richard Hatchett, chief executive of the CEPI Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which is co-leading a Nipah conference this week in Singapore.
Within two years of being first discovered, Nipah had spread to Bangladesh, where it has caused several outbreaks since 2001. A 2018 Nipah outbreak in Kerala, India, killed 17 people.
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