BATS FOUND IN WELL OF THE NIPAH VIRUS AFFECTED PEOPLE
Nipah virus has claimed 12 lives in Kerala, 20 people are being treated for the infection (Reuters)
NEW DELHI: Fruit bats may not be the cause of the brain-damaging NIPAH (NiV) virus that killed 12 people and infected 20 in southern Kerala, a medical test report has said.
The blood and serum samples of 21 bats tested at the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal returned negative results for the virus, officials said. Health officials linked the initial deaths to a we
Nipah is one of a family of viruses carried naturally by several species of fruit bat across southern Asia and Australasia.
It causes respiratory infection and brain damage and has a mortality rate in humans of up to 75 per cent. It can also infect farm animals.
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