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Nipah virus infection is an infection caused by the Nipah virus. Symptoms from infection vary from none to fever , cough, headache, shortness of breath , and confusion. This may worsen into a coma over a day or two, and 50% to 75% of those infected die.
Like other henipaviruses, the Nipah virus genome is a single (non-segmented) negative-sense, single-stranded RNA of over 18 kb, which is substantially longer than that of other paramyxoviruses. [2] [3] The enveloped virus particles are variable in shape, and can be filamentous or spherical; they contain a helical nucleocapsid. [2]
The infection was found to be caused by a new agent named Nipah virus (NiV), taken from the investigation area name of Nipah River Village (Malay: Kampung Sungai Nipah), [6] where it was unknown in available scientific records at the time. [1] [7] The virus origin was determined to be from a native fruit bat species. [8]
The virus is often transmitted by bats.
Nipah and other henipaviral diseases. Nipah is a henipavirus, the most lethal of paramyxoviruses. It was first identified in pigs in Malaysia and Singapore in the late 1980s, though its natural ...
The virus is spread by bats
After Nipah virus outbreaks in India in 2001 and 2007 (both in the eastern state of West Bengal), an outbreak occurred in Kerala in 2018. [1] The 2018 Kerala outbreak was traced to fruit bats in the area, was generally confined to Kozhikode and Malappuram districts, [2] [3] and claimed 17 lives. [4] The outbreak was declared over on 10 Jun 2018 ...
Henipavirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae, order Mononegavirales containing six established species, [1] [2] and numerous others still under study. [3] Henipaviruses are naturally harboured by several species of small mammals, notably pteropid fruit bats (flying foxes), microbats of several species, [ 4 ...