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Nipah virus outbreaks have been reported in Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh and India. The area is known as the Nipah Belt. The highest mortality due to Nipah virus infection was found in Bangladesh, [citation needed] where outbreaks are typically seen in winter. [24] Nipah virus was first seen in 1998 in
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.
A few years after the 1989 Emerging Viruses conference and the 1992 IOM report, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) was formed by a group of scientists as a follow-up in 1994 [27] and the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) launched the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal in 1995.
Nipah virus 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 reservoir is fruit 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]
Fruit bats from the area had tested positive for the Nipah virus during an outbreak in 2018, the state's first. "We are in a stage of hypervigilance and detection," George said, adding that 77 ...
The 1998–1999 Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak occurred from September 1998 to May 1999 in the states of Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor in Malaysia. A total of 265 cases of acute encephalitis with 105 deaths caused by the virus were reported in the three states throughout the outbreak. [ 1 ]
Moderna in 2022 also started an early-stage clinical trial of a Nipah virus vaccine, which it co-developed with the U.S.' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.