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The case fatality rate of Nipah virus infection is estimated at 40–75% but can vary by outbreak depending on surveillance and clinical management in affected areas. [3] Frequency ~701 human cases (1998 to May 2018) [4] [5] Deaths ~50 to 75% risk of death [4] [6]
Nipah virus: Viral Untreated 100% The rate drops to 40-75% if treated African trypanosomiasis: Parasitic Untreated >99% Without treatment this disease is nearly invariably fatal due to its parasitic and extremely debilitating nature [8] [9] Visceral leishmaniasis: Parasitic (protozoan) Untreated >99% [10] Naegleriasis: Amoebic Untreated ≈98.5%
An outbreak of Nipah virus occurred during January and February 2023 in Bangladesh with a total of 11 cases (ten confirmed, one probable) resulting in 8 deaths, a case fatality rate of 73%. [51] This outbreak resulted in the highest number of cases reported since 2015 in Bangladesh, and ten of the 11 cases during the 2023 outbreak had a ...
In its sixth outbreak in the country since 2001 this year, the virus, known for its 70% mortality rate, has claimed two lives out of the six who were infected in a span of few days in September ...
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Bangladesh reported on Monday its first fatality this year from the brain-damaging Nipah virus when a man died after drinking raw date juice. The virus, transmitted to humans through contact with ...
2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala: 2018 India Nipah virus infection: 17 [294] Kivu Ebola epidemic: 2018–2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda: Ebola: 2,280 [295] [296] [297] 2018 NDM-CRE outbreak in Italy 2018–2019 Italy New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae: 31 (as of September 2019 ...
Fruit bats from the area had tested positive for the Nipah virus during an outbreak in 2018, the state's first. ... USA TODAY. Flood warnings in effect as storms descend over Northeast this week.