STORY: Indian authorities are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus, after two people died of the disease in Kerala and at least three others tested positive. It's the state’s ...

A Nipah virus outbreak occurred in the Kozhikode district of the southern Indian state of Kerala between September 12–15. The outbreak resulted in six people being infected with two deaths, while ...

Staff install a sign reading "Nipah isolation ward, entry strictly prohibited" at a hospital where a ward is being prepared for suspected Nipah virus patients in Kozhikode NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India ...

Health officials in India are racing Thursday to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus, which has already killed two and carries a fatality rate the World Health Organization says is as high as 75%.

Medical teams find no trace of bat contamination as the patient begins neuro rehabilitation after months of intensive care ...

A new viral outbreak is spreading in the state of Kerala, in southern India. It’s called the Nipah virus and its existence wasn’t even known about until 1999. Nipah is spread by pigs and bats, the ...

A health official in India is reportedly vowing that an outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus (NiV) in the country’s southern Kerala state is under control despite more than 1,200 people being added to a ...

Kerala has confirmed the latest case of Nipah virus in the Malappuram district, health officials have said. Confirming the report, State Health Minister Veena George has stated that a 42-year-old ...

With the bat breeding season approaching, Kerala has ramped up its preventive measures against the Nipah virus (NiV), a deadly zoonotic pathogen that has previously caused multiple outbreaks in the ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus has resurfaced in the southern Indian state of Kerala a year after it killed 17 people, state officials said on Tuesday. A 23-year-old ...

A 12-year-old boy has died in India of Nipah, a rare virus that is far deadlier than COVID-19 — and one that health officials have long feared could start a global pandemic. The unidentified boy died ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus has resurfaced in Kerala a year after it killed 17 people, state officials said on Tuesday. A 23-year-old student tested positive for the ...