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 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.

The WHO said there was no evidence of increased human-to-human transmission so far, adding that India had the capacity to ...

Two cases have been detected in India among health care workers.

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.

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

The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

WHO says the risk of Nipah virus spreading from India is low after two cases in West Bengal, with no travel or trade ...

The risk of the deadly Nipah virus spreading from India is low, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, adding that it does not recommend any ...

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

Nipah, a zoonotic virus spread by fruit bats, pigs and human contact, has a fatality rate of 40% to 75%, according to the WHO ...