Nipah in Kerala: Genetic variation in virus? Doctors await genome sequencing
Monday, 18 September 2023 Doctors treating patients in the current Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode have observed changes in symptoms and disease progression compared to the initial 2018 outbreak. The severity of symptoms, such as encephalitis, appears to be milder this time, with patients experiencing body pain, high fever, shivering, and cough. The rate of disease progression has also been slower. Experts are awaiting the results of genomic sequencing to determine if there are any genetic variations in the virus causing these differences.
On Friday, another case of Nipah virus was officially confirmed in Kozhikode. This case involves a 39-year-old man who was under observation at a private hospital. It is noteworthy that he had sought medical attention at the same private hospital where other individuals with Nipah virus had been...
Se presenta el cuarto brote del virus Nipah (NiV) en cinco años en la India. Su mortalidad oscila entre el 40 y el 75 %, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). La enfermedad ya ha causado..
On Wednesday, the Kerala government said in the assembly that the Nipah virus, which has killed two people out of four infected, was a strain of the Bangladesh variant. Kerala Health Minister Veena..
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..
Monday, 18 September 2023
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