Nipah virus

Malayalam actor Tovino Thomas says he is proud of Keralites who immediately stepped in for the rescue operation after the Air India Express flight crashed in Kozhikode in Kerala . He adds that whether it was the devastating 2018 floods, Nipah Virus or Corona, people of Kerala forget their professional, personal and political differences to be by each others’ side. read more

M Ajanya who survived the nipah virus, is a general nursing and midwifery graduate is waiting for her first job. read more

The ministry of home affairs (MHA) suspended the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act -2010 (FCRA) account of the university for carrying out the “unauthorized” research at the Manipal Institute of Virology, the official said. read more

The remaining two positive cases were also responding well to the treatment and the minister expressed hope that will be out of their positive status soon. read more

CDC, America’s front line public health agency, has partnered with Manipal Centre for Virus Research (MCVR) to carry out illness surveillance across India read more

Monitoring, isolation and private sector participation are helping tackle the crisis read more

National Florence Nightingale awards were instituted in the year 1973 by the Indian government as a mark of recognition for the meritorious services rendered by nurses. read more

Established disease protocols including specific case definition, contact tracing, treatment and clinical management were closely followed. read more

K K Shailaja met Harsh Vardhan who is regularly reviewing the public health measures put in place in Kerala, and assured her of all support from the Centre. read more

The Nipah virus resurfaced in Kerala a year after it killed 17 people in the state, with a 23-year-old engineering graduate testing positive for the virus in Kochi on Tuesday. read more

A 23-year-old engineering graduate was tested positive for the virus in Kochi on Tuesday. read more

Health officials said it was difficult to confirm the source of the virus as the patient had travelled to three districts in Kerala over the last 20 days. The officials have scanned the three areas where he stayed but they could not locate fruit bats... read more

This is the second Nipah outbreak in Kerala. An outbreak of Nipah virus infection in Kerala last year led to the death of 17 people. read more

An outbreak of Nipah virus infection in Kerala last year led to the death of 17 people in the northern part of the state. read more

According to the World Health Organisation data, India has reported three human outbreaks of the NVD so far, and the latest being in May 2018 from Kerala where 17 died and 18 people were infected. read more