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Explained: All you need to know about Nipah Virus

The death of a 12-year-old child in Kozhikode has caused Nipah to scare.
While health authorities take all steps to bite it from the start, this is what we must know about infection.
Is that a nipah virus? Nipah virus infection is a zoonotic disease that causes severe diseases to animals and humans.
It was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak in Malaysia.
The death rate for the NIPHA virus is 70 percent.
Transmission is not possible to spread like Covid-19 because it’s not an air infection.
Viruses can be transmitted from animals (bats or pigs), or contaminated food, and from close contact with infected body fluids.
Symptoms, respiratory symptoms include coughing, sore throat, pain, fatigue and encephalitis.
Treatment that there is no vaccine against the Nipah virus.
Only treatment available is a supportive cough treatment.
Ribavirin, antivirus drug, is used for and encephalitis treating patients in 2018.
M.
102.4 – human monoclonal antibodies where clinical trials are still ongoing – will be imported from Australia.
The state health minister said the ICMR had promised to get new shares within seven days.
Prevention to avoid capturing the Nipah virus, do not consume fruits that fall to the ground.
Other prevention steps including do not come with close contact with infected people.

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