The 12-year-old death 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 which causes severe disease in animals and humans * first identified in 1998 during an outbreak in Malaysia * The death rate for the Nipah virus is a 70% transmission * it is not possible to spread like Covid-19 because this is not an air infection * Viruses can be transmitted from animals (bats or pigs), or contaminated foods and from close contact with the body’s fluid that is infected with Nipah in Kerala2018 * The first outbreak in the state was reported by Kozhikode in 2018 and claimed 17 lives.
The first case was reported on May 2, 2018 and the outbreak was contained and declared higher on June 10, 2018 * it was the third outbreak in India, with the previous one that occurred in 2001 (45 deaths) and 2007 (5 deaths) in West Bengal 2019 * The 23-year-old student tested a positive virus on June 4, 2019 in Ernakulam.
Students areolated and infections are stopped on track without one death 2021 * A 12-year-old boy in Kozhikode was treated on September 1 with Nipah symptoms died on Sunday morning.
The presence of the Nipah virus was confirmed in the sample * 20 people who had come into contact with the boy, including two health workers, with symptoms similar to nipah under the observation steps taken * Nipah’s call center and the predicted control room had been determined by the Government * NIV, Pune was asked to establish a test center in Kozhikode.
The point-of-care testing facility under NIV is set at Kozhikode Medical College, where special Nipah Ward has also been opened * The Government Government has rushed the National Team for Disease Control of Symptoms of Country: Fever, Respiratory Symptoms including coughing, sore throat, pain and fatigue, and treatment of encephalitis * There is no vaccine against the Nipah Virus * Only the treatment available is Supportive Care * Ribavirin, antivirus drugs, used to treat patients in 2018 * M 102.4-A monoclonal antibodies for clinical trials where it is still ongoing – will be imported from Australia.
The Minister of Health said ICMR has promised to get new stocks in seven days prevention * Do not consume fruits that have fallen into the ground * do not have close contact with infected people
Nipah virus in Kerala: All you need to know
