SINGAPORE: Singapore's Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Saturday (Feb 7) it is closely monitoring a reported case of Nipah virus infection in northwest Bangladesh, adding that no cases ...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) says there is a low risk that the deadly Nipah virus will spread beyond India, where two people tested positive. In an email sent to the Reuters news agency, WHO ...

Two people in India’s West Bengal contracted the infection in December last year, with health officials there tracing almost 200 close contacts. None has tested positive. Multiple airports across Asia ...

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of mature extracellular Nipah virus particles (red) near the periphery of an infected Vero cell (blue). Photo / Getty Images An outbreak of the Nipah virus ...

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COURTNEY BEMBRIDGE, REPORTER: Thermal screening at airports, quarantining and testing and a deadly virus that spreads from bats to humans. Sound familiar? This time, we’re talking about Nipah virus ...