The Nipah virus outbreak this year was in Kozhikode district, which neighbours Wayanad, and six persons were infected, of whom two had died
Kerala Health Minister Veena George said that government's Institute of Advanced Virology, the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) and the National Institute of Virology in...
The idea of One Health, which involves public health, veterinary and environmental sectors, is to contain zoonotic diseases which spread from animals to humans
The Nipah virus which is known for its 70 per cent mortality rate, has claimed two lives out of the six within a span of few...
Isolation and surveillance of all those who came in contact with the patients helped in reducing the severity of the outbreak
Nipah Virus: The Indian Council for Medical Research has allowed Kerala to conduct Truenat tests, which uses portable, smart chip-based, battery-operated RT-PCR kits, in certain hospitals
Out of the 323 samples tested for Nipah Virus in Kerala, 317 samples tested negative and six samples tested positive till now
Samples of 304 people with symptoms of the disease have been collected out of which the test results of 267 people have come marking six people...
