A 12-year-old boy infected with the Nipah virus died in a private hospital in Kozhikode, Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n Nipah Virus(NiV) is a zoonotic virus. \u200b\u200b<\/span>The first outbreaks of the Nipah virus among humans was reported from Malaysia (1998) and Singapore (1999).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The animal host reservoir for this virus is known to be the fruit bat, commonly known as flying fox. Fruit bats are known to transmit this virus to other animals like pigs, and also dogs, cats, goats, horses and sheep.<\/span><\/p>\n It is a zoonotic virus, meaning it has been transmitted from animals to human beings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The transmission happens mainly through direct contact with these animals or through the consumption of food contaminated by the saliva or urine of these infected animals.<\/span><\/p>\n Person-to-person transmission is not fully established yet.<\/span><\/p>\n Fever, respiratory symptoms including cough, sore throat, aches, fatigue and encephalitis. The death rate for Nipah virus is 70%.<\/span><\/p>\n There is no vaccine against Nipah virus. The only available treatment is supportive cough care. Ribavirin, an antiviral drug, was used to treat encephalitis in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Creation of Vaccines<\/strong>: The vaccine for Nipah can be made by making small tweaks to the Corona Virus vaccines. This can reduce the cost of developing new vaccines. This is an important development as this technique can be used to develop vaccines for tropical or neglected tropical diseases.<\/p>\n Surveillance database: <\/strong>For better coordination and health outputs, there is need to coordinate the treatment methods and health surveillance of people. This can also be used to create a surveillance database for animals.<\/strong> For this,\u00a0Government should adopt the “One Health Policy”<\/strong> approach.<\/p>\n Research: <\/strong>States should open labs for proper research of animals. Government should also set up Bio-safely high-security labs<\/strong> to do the test and research in a respective state itself<\/p>\n As Nipah is restricted to Kerala itself, experts suggested implementing Kerala Public Health Act<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Source: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span>All you need to know about Nipah virus\u201d published in <\/span>TOI on <\/span>6th September 2021.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A 12-year-old boy infected with the Nipah virus died in a private hospital in Kozhikode, Kerala. About Nipah Virus Nipah Virus(NiV) is a zoonotic virus. \u200b\u200bThe first outbreaks of the Nipah virus among humans was reported from Malaysia (1998) and Singapore (1999).\u00a0 Host Reservoir of Nipah Virus The animal host reservoir… Continue reading All you need to know about Nipah virus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[9556,9094,9627,9628,342],"class_list":["post-131859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-biology","tag-biotechnology","tag-issues-related-with-health-diseases","tag-nipah-disease","tag-nipah-virus","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Nipah Virus<\/b><\/h5>\n
Host Reservoir of Nipah Virus<\/b><\/h5>\n
How does it spread?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Symptoms of Nipah Virus infection<\/b><\/h5>\n
Treatment for Nipah Virus infection<\/b><\/h5>\n
Suggestions to control Nipah Virus<\/strong><\/h5>\n