A suspected case of Nipah virus has been reported in Kozhikode district of Kerala.
While an official affirmation from the well being division is awaited, a supply at a personal hospital in Kozhikode mentioned a 12-year-old boy with persistent signs of Nipah virus was admitted earlier this week. The samples have been despatched to the laboratory of the National Institute of Virology in Alappuzha.
Sources mentioned that the situation of the boy is vital.
The final time Nipah virus was reported in Kerala was in Kochi in 2019. In 2018, an outbreak had claimed 17 lives in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts.
Nipah is a zoonotic virus and may be transmitted from animals reminiscent of bats and pigs to people. The illness has a really excessive mortality price and there’s no identified remedy or vaccine out there.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
