Crowd control & contact tracing stepped up, masks mandatory as health worker tests positive for Nipah in Kerala
Wednesday, 13 September 2023 A 24-year-old healthcare worker at a private hospital in Kerala's Kozhikode district tested positive for Nipah fever on Wednesday, a day after four people, including two who have since passed away, were confirmed to be infected with the virus. The health worker's samples were tested at National Institute of Virology, Pune, according to health minister Veena George.
Alarms are ringing in India over yet another deadly virus. The southern state of Kerala has reported four cases of the Nipah virus out of which two succumb to the infection. Now Nipah is a zoonotic virus which means it is transmitted to people from animals. It mainly affects animals such as bats,...
The Kerala Health Department has issued a health alert in Kozhikode district. The alert came after two deaths were suspected to be caused by the Nipah virus infection, which was described as..
Wednesday, 13 September 2023
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