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Nipah virus may begin like a mild illness but can quickly turn fatal. Dr Dip Narayan Mukherjee, Consultant – Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at CK Birla Hospitals, CMRI, explains what makes this rare infection far more dangerous than many others.

Nipah is a rare viral infection that spreads largely from infected animals, mainly fruit bats, to humans. It can be asymptomatic but it is often very dangerous.

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) listed it as a priority pathogen requiring urgent research and development, but since then, no vaccine has been found to combat the lethal virus. Nipah virus is zoonotic, meaning it spreads from animals to humans.

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Five confirmed Nipah virus cases in West Bengal have triggered a high alert as the infection is extremely lethal, spreads from animals to humans, and can be transmitted between people. With fatality rates up to 75 per cent and no approved cure or vaccine,

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The Nipah virus isn’t new and, according to World Health Organization (WHO), has been recognized since 1999 following an outbreak in Malaysia. However, with that said, there is no cure for the disease, and it has a scarily high fatality rate of 40-75 per cent, though there is limited treatment, which is often intensive care.