An outbreak of the Nipah virus in India is being closely monitored by Jersey's health authorities after a small number of cases.

Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam are among the Asian locations that tightened airport screening checks this week to guard against such a spread after India confirmed infections.

The South Asian nation has identified two occurrences of the bat-transmitted virus in the state of West Bengal since December ...

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Authorities in the east Indian state of West Bengal have placed over 200 people into quarantine after confirming two cases of Nipah virus, both in healthcare workers. All the quarantined are close ...

Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Health Emergencies Programme official Anais Legand said none of the more than 190 people who had contact ...

Generally, travellers are warned not to go within 10km (six miles) of the India-Pakistan border or to the Union Territory of ...

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%. Several countries, including Thailand, ...

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The agency added that it did not recommend travel or trade curbs after two infections of the deadly virus were reported by the South Asian nation.

A World Health Organization official said on Friday that the risk of the spread of the Nipah virus is low, saying that none of the over 190 contacts of the two people infected in India had tested ...

The virus — called Nipah — kills more than half of the people it infects. Nipah virus, which was named after the village in ...