In the Indian state of Kerala, two people have mysteriously died due to a new wave of Nipah, a virus worse than Corona.
According to the Indian website ‘India Today’, the Health Department of the Indian state of Kerala has issued a ‘NEPA Alert’ due to two unnatural deaths in Kozhikode district.
According to Indian media reports, Nipah virus is being suspected after two ‘unnatural deaths’ due to fever in Kerala’s Kozhikode district. Awaiting test results.
It should be remembered that Nipah virus has previously occurred twice in the Indian state of Kerala in 2018 and 2021, resulting in several deaths.
In 2018, Nipah virus was also included in the list of epidemic diseases by the World Health Organization (WHO).
What is Nipah virus?
Nipah virus is a highly lethal virus that infects the human brain, it is a bat-borne virus that spreads from animals to humans and from humans to other animals and causes infection.
Nipah is a disease with a high mortality rate, and several diseases caused by Nipah virus have been reported in Northeast Africa and Southeast Asia.
According to Indian media reports, the Nipah virus was first found in pigs in a town of Nipah in Malaysia in 1998, after which the name of the virus was changed to Nipah.
What are the symptoms of Nipah virus?
According to WHO, the symptoms of high fever, headache, cough, sore throat, body ache, fatigue, brain inflammation are found in a person infected with Nipah virus. These symptoms lead to coma in 24 to 48 hours. can take up to
In the early stages of infection with Nipah virus, breathing becomes difficult while the nerves begin to weaken.
Why Nipah is called worse than Corona?
According to the WHO, the Nipah virus is much less contagious than the Corona virus, but it is a much more deadly virus in terms of infection.
One or two out of every 100 patients infected with the coronavirus die, while the death rate from Nipah virus infection is much higher.
30 to 40 percent of people infected with Nipah virus die.
Nipah virus and treatment
According to the World Health Organization, Nipah virus is one of the most dangerous diseases for which there is no cure, it directly damages the brain, it is possible that we will hear its name again and again in the future.
According to the World Health Organization, no vaccine has yet been developed to treat Nipah virus in humans or animals. This virus has spread several times in Asia, especially in India.
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