The Southern Indian state of Kerala is now battling another deadly outbreak of the Nipah virus, its fourth since 2018. Authorities were alerted to the outbreak after two deaths attributed to the ...

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 ...

The virus has a fatality rate between 40% and 75%, according to the CDC. India's southern state of Kerala is currently facing an outbreak of the rare, but potentially serious Nipah virus with at ...

Or perhaps another, and even more disturbing possibility — could it be a rare, poorly understood virus called Nipah? "Nipah is terrifying, unusually terrifying," says Dr. Stephen Luby ...

Health officials in India are racing to contain an outbreak of Nipah virus after a teenage boy died from an infection over the weekend, the latest in a series of outbreaks in the region of the ...

It was more than two weeks before doctors even realized what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region.

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 has reported its fifth Nipah virus outbreak since 2018 in the district of Malappuram. There is no vaccine or treatment for symptoms of the virus, which can cause acute respiratory infection ...

The advance, described Jan. 20 in Cell, brings scientists a step closer to developing much-needed medicines.Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus ...

Kochi, India — Authorities in southern India’s Kerala state are taking preventive steps after the death of a 14-year-old boy from the Nipah virus and the identification of 60 people in the ...