Nipah Virus, Rare and Dangerous, Spreads in India

Burying a victim of the Nipah virus in Kozhikode, southern India. There is no vaccine and no cure for the disease.  Credit K.Shijith/Associated Press

The infection, an emerging threat, has killed virtually all of its victims so far in India.

nytimes.com - by Emily Baumgaertner - June 4, 2018

A rare, brain-damaging virus that experts consider a possible epidemic threat has broken out in the state of Kerala, India, for the first time, infecting at least 18 people and killing 17 of them, according to the World Health Organization.

The Nipah virus naturally resides in fruit bats across South and Southeast Asia, and can spread to humans through contact with the animals’ bodily fluids. There is no vaccine and no cure.

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