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 ...

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 ...

While the world dealt with the fallout from viruses like COVID-19 and the bird flu, another virus was quietly lurking in the background. Although the Nipa virus may not be a household name yet, some ...

NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - India's southern state of Kerala shut some schools and offices this week as officials raced to halt the spread of the deadly Nipah virus, after it killed two people in ...

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 ...

On July 12, a new deadly Nipah virus infection was confirmed in a 52-year-old man in the Palakkad district of Kerala, marking the tenth instance of Nipah virus spillover (transmission of the pathogen ...

The Nipah virus is on the World Health Organization's short list of diseases that have pandemic potential and therefore post the greatest public health risk. The virus emerged in Malaysia in the 1990s ...

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 ...

In the southern Indian state of Kerala, the bat-borne Nipah virus has infected six people — two of whom have died — since it emerged in late August. More than 700 people, including health-care workers ...

Langya henipavirus (LayV), a virus that spreads by shrews which has been identified in 35 people in China, has an extremely deadly relative: Nipah virus. The latest Langya cases were announced in a ...

In December 2018, a 53-year-old woman showed up at a hospital in China with flu-like symptoms. She was infected with a henipavirus, a class that includes some dangerous pathogens like Nipah virus, ...