Nipah virus, Zika virus are also found
as causative agents for AES.
In June 2018,
the ban was imposed due to the outbreak of Nipah virus.
Nipah Virus: Avoid walking around these places in Kerala,
Government issued alerts for tourists.
As mentioned earlier Nipah virus can only survive under the temperature
22-37 degrees Celsius.
When the Nipah virus infection spread in Malaysia,
then the virus reached pigs in humans.
The Nipah virus was first recognized in 1999
during an outbreak among pig farmers in Malaysia.
Nipah is not capable of sustained transmission
and disappears when the virus runs its natural course.
In the new trial, eight African green monkeys were given lethal doses of Nipah virus.
The accurate mechanism of Nipah virus transmission from bats to humans is
not clearly understood till date.
It gets its name from Sungai Nipah, a Malaysian village,
where pig farmers became ill with encephalitis.
The State had learned the importance of contact tracing during the Nipah virus outbreak of 2018.
Health authorities on 24 May advised travelers to the region to guard against the Nipah virus.
Transmission of Nipah virus from human to human may occur via direct contact
or possibly dispersed as aerosol.
A virus named after Kampung Sungai Nipah, a village in Malaysia,
where it was first discovered in 1998-99.
Exact studies can't be done in this area because Nipah Virus are considered as biosafety level(BSL) 4 agents.
COVID-19 has also spelled bad news for Kerala tourism,
already impacted by two consecutive floods and the Nipah outbreaks.
According to WHO, Nipah Virus Infection(NiV)
is an emerging infectious disease of public health importance in the South-East Asia Region.
Because Nipah virus can spread from person to person,
all precautions should be taken to prevent infection in the hospital.
Nipah's outbreak usually spreads during the spring months(December to May)
and its transition period ranges from 6 to 21 days.
NiV was first identified during an outbreak of disease that took place in Kampung Sungai Nipah, Malaysia in 1998.
Nipah cases tend to occur in a cluster or as an outbreak,
although 18% of cases in Bangladesh were isolated.
In fact, bats are the direct source of human pathogenic viruses including rabies virus,
Ebola virus, Nipah virus and Hendra virus.
In India, annual outbreaks do occur and so far,
it's found out that Nipah virus transmission occurs mainly in four modes.
For the past two weeks,
we have been hearing so much of this Nipah Virus through news and other social platforms.
Now coming to the well water rumor, as I told earlier Nipah virus can only survive in acidic pH(between 2-5).
Nipah is"top of the list" of 10 priority diseases
that the World Health Organization has identified as a potential next major outbreak.
COVID-19 has also written bad news for tourism in Kerala that
has been hit by two consecutive floods and the Nipah outbreaks.
Which Kerala nurse was posthumously awarded the Florence Nightingale Award 2019,
who died last year while treating people suffering from Nipah virus?
According to health experts, Nipah symptoms are not specific
and include flu-like illness and hence can be confused with any respiratory illness.
Recent Nipah outbreaks have resulted in acute respiratory distress syndrome and
encephalitis, person-to-person transmission and greater than 90 percent fatality rates among people.