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"Highly infectious, fatal": AIIMS Bilaspur president says no vaccine avail
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
"Nipah virus is highly infectious and fatal. Patients either develop symptoms of encephalitis or severe respiratory disease. The mortality rate ranges between 40 and 75 per cent, which is very high," Dr Arora told ANI.
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Bats suffer hearing loss too, but how they adapt may help humans
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A study by a team of Tel Aviv University researchers found that hearing loss does occur in bats, however at a slower rate compared to humans and other mammals.
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UAE issues travel advisory against dangerous Marburg virus
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Disease is passed on to people from fruit bats and is from the same virus family responsible for the deadly Ebola. Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania are facing outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious and deadly disease similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said earl
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What is Marburg disease and should India be worried?
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans by fruit bats and is spread in humans through direct contact with the body fluids of infected persons, or with surfaces and materials.
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Nipah is a serious disease with high morbidity, mortality: AIIMS top exper
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): As Kerala witnessed its first Nipah virus fatality with the death of a 12-year-old in its Kozhikode district, experts stress the importance of ascertaining the source of transmission of the fatal virus, which is highly contagious once it jumps from an
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Fruit bat samples tested negative for Nipah Virus
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kozhikode, (Kerala) [India] June 2 (ANI): Samples of fruit bats that were sent from Kozhikode to Bhopal's National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD) on May 30 were tested negative for Nipah Virus.
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