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Nipah virus outbreak in India: What you need to know about viral disease

Staff members install a sign reading 'Nipah isolation ward, entry strictly prohibited' at a hospital where a ward is being prepared for suspected Nipah virus patients in Kozhikode district on September 12, 2023. [Stringer/Reuters]

India’s southern Kerala state has shut down schools and offices and declared containment zones in parts of the state amid the risk of an outbreak of Nipah virus following the death of two people from the rare and deadly brain-damaging viral disease.

More than 130 people have so far been tested for the virus in the wake of its fourth outbreak since 2018. At least 21 died in the 2018 outbreak.

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