Nipah suspect tests negative at ID hospital
The patient from East Burdwan district recently returned home from Kerala where the Nipah virus has claimed two lives
The patient from East Burdwan district recently returned home from Kerala where the Nipah virus has claimed two lives
Coming as a relief, 24 more samples tested negative for Nipah in Kerala Kozhikode which reported two deaths from the…
Kerala Health Minister Veena George has on Sunday confirmed that no fresh cases of Nipah have been reported on Sunday…
On Wednesday, Kerala’s health minister Veena George announced the confirmation of yet another Nipah virus illness, bringing the state’s total…
The Nipah virus (NiV) in Kerala is suspected of being the cause of two “unnatural” deaths in the Kozhikode district…
Truenat is an indigenous portable, battery-operated, Internet of Things-enabled RT-PCR platform developed and manufactured in India. It can test for nearly 30 diseases, and results take less than an hour.
The resurgence of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases in the 21st century (SARS, bird flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika, Nipah and COVID-19) has turned the spotlight on animals and insects and vectors of infectious diseases as epidemic villains. Rightly are they regarded as the incubators of the existential risk for humanity.
Meanwhile, two persons are learnt to have been put under observation at the Trivandrum Medical College and their samples have been sent for examination.
The condition of the 23-year-old youth who continues to be treated at a ward at Kalamassery hospital near Kochi is said to be stable.
A youth who was being treated near Kochi was confirmed to have contracted the virus after a positive report by the National Institute of Virology, Pune.
