The Kerala One Health Centre for Nipah Research will be developed to take up pioneering research that will serve as a model for the world, Health Minister Veena George has said.
She was at the Government Medical College here on Wednesday evening to open the centre and declare Kozhikode as free from Nipah infection.
Ms. George said that with Kerala successfully battling recurring cases of the infection, it had unique experiences in containment steps. The centre would focus on unearthing how the virus transmitted from fruit-eating bats, its natural reservoirs, to human beings. It would be able to take up community surveillance steps in Kozhikode and Wayanad districts, where the presence of antibodies against the virus had been detected.
