New Delhi: South Indian State of Kerala quickly increases efforts to stop the potential of the outbreak of deadly Nipah viruses, even when the country continues to fight with the highest number of corrodaovirus cases in this country.
Kerala was alert after a 12-year-old boy died of a rare virus on Sunday, spurred health officials to start contacting contacts and isolated hundreds of people who came into contact with the boy, who died in a hospital on the coast on the coast.
Kozhikode city.
On Tuesday, the Minister of Health told reporters that the sample eight main contacts had returned negatively.
“That eight direct contacts are tested negatively are great relief,” Veena George said.
Nipah, who was first identified during the epidemic in the late 1990s in Malaysia, could be spread by bats, pigs and through human contact to humans.
There are no vaccines for viruses, which can cause fever that goes berserk, convulsions and vomiting.
The only treatment is a suporactive treatment for controlling complications and keeping patients comfortable.
This virus has an estimated mortality rate between 40% and 75%, according to WHO, making it far more deadly than Coronavirus.
George said that more samples would be tested on Tuesday and that a total of 48 contacts, including eight who had been tested negatively, were being monitored at the hospital.
Officials will also carry out door-to-door supervision and identify secondary contacts.
During the weekend, the federal government sent an expert team to Kozhikode to help local officials track contacts.
They also suggest a list of recommendations, including strengthening health infrastructure if there are more cases and warn neighboring districts.
The country deals with nipah in 2018, when more than a dozen people die of viruses.
This time, worries are exacerbated by the fact that the state has won national headlines in recent weeks to see the highest number in the Covid-19 case in India.
On Monday, Kerala registered nearly 20,000 Covid-19 infections of the total Daily India 31.222.
While cases throughout the country have declined after a devastating surge earlier this year, the situation in Kerala remains concerned, with experts warn that the state cannot maintain.