A suspected Nipah virus case in Kerala has prompted heightened surveillance and contact tracing efforts. The government is ...

The recent death of a teenage girl has spotlighted the deadly Nipah virus, raising global concerns due to its high fatality ...

A TEENAGE girl has died from a brain-swelling bat virus which experts fear could be the ‘next pandemic’. The 18-year-old ...

His samples were tested at Manjeri Medical College, where the results came back positive for Nipah, Health Minister Veena ...

A drug that targets two parts of the deadly Nipah virus protects against infection in hamsters. And once an animal is ...

In a recent incident, a 38-year-old woman in Kerala who is a resident of the Palakkad district has tested positive for the ...

The state of Kerala has been seeing an uptick in cases of the Nipah virus infections. Underlining the threat, the authorities ...

The Nipah virus is not related to COVID-19, but may have the same originating source — bats. The host of the virus is fruit bats, also known as flying foxes because of their large size.

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 ...

Nipah virus is suspecting of killing at least 10 people in southwestern India, including a nurse caring for patients, according to officials there. The little-known virus has never been seen in ...

What is the Nipah virus? It is a zoonotic virus, which means it is spread from animals to humans and infects both. Nipah likes to live in fruit bats, its natural host.

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...