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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAuthorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kerala-nipah-virus-india-outbreak-deaths/New Delhi Authorities in India's southern Kerala state are racing to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus. The virus, which is not related to the coronavirus behind the current global pandemic and is far more deadly, killed a 12-year-old boy in Kerala over the weekend, prompting stepped-up efforts to trace his contacts. New infections have been confirmed.
The boy was admitted to a hospital a week ago with high fever. As his condition worsened and doctors suspected inflammation of his brain (encephalitis), his blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology, where tests confirmed a Nipah infection. He died early on Sunday.
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There is no cure or vaccine for Nipah yet, and patients are only given supportive medical care.
According to the World Health Organization, up to 75% of Nipah infections prove fatal. The mortality rate for the coronavirus, by comparison, is believed to be about 2%. About 20% of survivors experience neurological symptoms that can persist, including seizures and personality changes.
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The boy was admitted to a hospital a week ago with high fever. As his condition worsened and doctors suspected inflammation of his brain (encephalitis), his blood samples were sent to the National Institute of Virology, where tests confirmed a Nipah infection. He died early on Sunday.
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There is no cure or vaccine for Nipah yet, and patients are only given supportive medical care.
According to the World Health Organization, up to 75% of Nipah infections prove fatal. The mortality rate for the coronavirus, by comparison, is believed to be about 2%. About 20% of survivors experience neurological symptoms that can persist, including seizures and personality changes.
Compare to Ebola virus, whose most current fatality rate is 55%, per Johns Hopkins https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ebola/myth_versus_reality.html
Let's hope the Indian government hustles and gets this under control quickly.
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Authorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India (Original Post)
steve2470
Sep 2021
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Like Ebola, Nipah is far more deadly than COVID, but far less contagious. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Sep 2021
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Time to shut down intl travel, imo.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)4. Yes, especially from countries with lots of disease-carrying bats.
Shermann
(7,355 posts)2. It has one of the checkboxes needed for the doomsday virus
...high mortality rate.
But it doesn't have the high transmissibility of a respiratory virus.
CV-19 has the high transmissibility but low mortality.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)3. 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala
Though the first set of samples did not detect the virus in bats,[18] later tests proved that fruit bats in the area were the source of the virus.
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The index patient had passed the virus to 16 persons at Medical College Hospital; later two more were infected, increasing the total count of infected to 18. There were 10 deaths in the first week, including a nurse named Lini Puthussery who treated the index patient before diagnosis.[10][11] The outbreak began in Kozhikode district and later spread to the adjoining Malappuram district. Health advisories were issued for Northern Kerala as well as the adjoining districts of Karnataka, with two suspected cases detected in Mangalore on 23 May 2018.[12]
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The index patient had passed the virus to 16 persons at Medical College Hospital; later two more were infected, increasing the total count of infected to 18. There were 10 deaths in the first week, including a nurse named Lini Puthussery who treated the index patient before diagnosis.[10][11] The outbreak began in Kozhikode district and later spread to the adjoining Malappuram district. Health advisories were issued for Northern Kerala as well as the adjoining districts of Karnataka, with two suspected cases detected in Mangalore on 23 May 2018.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala
Maybe Covid has made the medical staff more infection control conscious, and fewer will be infected.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,367 posts)5. Like Ebola, Nipah is far more deadly than COVID, but far less contagious. Nt