Health officials in India's southern state of Kerala have issued an alert of an outbreak of the Nipah virus after a 14-year-old boy from the state died from the highly fatal infection.
Nipah is a zoonotic virus commonly found in fruit bats that gets transmitted to humans and other animals, such as pigs, through close contact or body fluids from infected creatures. Notably, Nipah can also be transmitted directly from person to person via contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals.
