The Health department has issued an alert to all districts to be on guard against Nipah-like illnesses and to strengthen disease surveillance and monitoring as the breeding season of bats have just started.
Kerala has so far experienced three Nipah outbreaks, the first one being in 2018 in Kozhikode, a lone case again in 2019 at Ernakulam and again a lone case in Kozhikode in 2021.