Assessing the impact of Nipah virus on human being, in India
Abstract
The Nipah virus was found in Kozhikode district in Kerala State of the India, to this outbreak in May 2018. At that time, get the confirmation report of the National Institute of Virology, Pune (M.S), and detected Nipah virus specific in antibodies livestock serum sample from Kerala state. Nipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic virus (it is transmitted from animal to human) and can also be transmitted through contaminated food or directly between people. In infected people, it affects a range of illnesses from asymptomatic infected to acute respiratory illness, fever, fatal encephalitis, mental confusion, vomiting muscles pain, sore throat, dizziness, pneumonia and unconsciousness as well as coma or death. Nipah virus has caused only a few known outbreaks in India. It infects a wide range of animals and causes severe disease and death in people. In May 2018, Nipah virus outbreak was reported in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, India. The seventeen people’s deaths were recorded, including one healthcare worker. Those who have died were mainly from the district of Kozhikode and Malappurum, including a 31 years old nurse, who was treating persons infected with the virus. The present investigations are attention is given mostly to studies assigning the impact of the Nipah virus on human bodies. Keywords: Nipah virus, Bats and Human
Downloads
Additional Files
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Jawale CA
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If the material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/
