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☆ India's Kerala state reports two deaths from Nipah virus
  + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Staff members install a sign reading "Nipah isolation ward, entry strictly prohibited" at a hospital where a ward is being prepared for suspected Nipah virus patients in Kozhikode district, Kerala, India, September 12, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer Acquire Licensing RightsNEW DELHI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - India has recorded two deaths from the rare Nipah virus in the state of Kerala, an official from the National Institute of Virology said on Tuesday. One person died this month while another death occurred on Aug. 30, said the official, who declined to be named. Mass testing will begin in the area where the latest cases were found and some quarantine measures have been put in placeThis is the fourth Nipah outbreak in Kerala since 2018. A Reuters investigation published in May identified parts of Kerala as among the places most at risk globally for outbreaks of bat viruses.
Persons: Stringer, Nipah, Rupam Jain, Deborah Nelson, Mark Potter Organizations: REUTERS, National Institute of Virology, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Kozhikode district, Kerala, India, DELHI, Malaysia, Singapore
☆ How a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people
  + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +16 min
Scientists found bats with Nipah virus roosting near Sabith’s home. A search of the neighborhood led to a colony, near their house, of flying foxes, a common fruit bat. NETTING NIPAH: Researchers in Bangladesh use nets to catch bats and collect samples to find the Nipah virus in the wild. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir HossainWhether Sabith ate contaminated fruit or somehow came into direct contact with a bat, the virus entered his cells. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir HossainA year later, Chua’s team found the same strain of Nipah virus in flying foxes.
☆ We may never know where the COVID pandemic originated
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
LONDONIt’s the enduring mystery of the COVID-19 pandemic: Where did the virus come from? They also mostly agree that many of the earliest known infections and deaths clustered around a wildlife market in Wuhan, China. Others suspect the pathogen somehow leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, 27 km from the market, where researchers study bat viruses. One concentration of jump zones includes a region of mountains and lakes about 175 km southeast of the Wuhan market. In late 2002, the SARS-CoV-1 virus emerged in Guangdong province, in southern China, and became the SARS pandemic of 2003.
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