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The fictional MEV-1 virus featured in the 2011 film Contagion was based on a combination of Nipah and measles virus. [60] A Malayalam movie, Virus, was released in 2019, based on the 2018 outbreak of Nipah virus in Kerala, India. [61] [62] In series 4 episode 1 of The Good Karma Hospital, a patient is admitted with Nipah. [citation needed]
Nipah virus is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very high mortality rate (40-75%). Numerous disease outbreaks caused by Nipah virus have occurred in South East Africa and Southeast Asia.
The virus firstly struck pig-farms in the suburb of Ipoh in Perak with the occurrence of respiratory illness and encephalitis among the pigs, where it was initially believed to have been caused by Japanese encephalitis (JE), due to four serum samples from 28 infected humans in the area which tested positive for JE-specific Immunoglobulin M (IgM) which is also confirmed by the findings of the ...
Ebola & Marburg virus diseases ... and may progress to encephalitis—inflammation of the brain—along with other neurologic symptoms and death. Nipah kills between 45% and 75% of the people it ...
A deadly virus called Nipah carried by bats has already caused human outbreaks across South and South East Asia and has "serious epidemic potential", global health and infectious disease ...
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