SUNDAY, Feb. 8, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Reports of new Nipah virus cases in India have raised worries about yet another ...

Nipah virus (NiV) is a serious infectious disease that periodically causes outbreaks in parts of Asia. 2026 has seen some ...

A YOUNG nurse has died after catching Nipah, a virus that has been dubbed the ‘next pandemic threat’. The 25-year-old was one of two confirmed cases in eastern India and succumbed to the bat-borne ...

India reports first Nipah death of latest outbreak but says no new cases detected - Nurse, 25, was one of two confirmed cases in South Asian country ...

Two cases of the Nipah virus have been detected in India, prompting a raft of screening measures to be enacted in countries across Asia.

The first case was reported in the United Kingdom, who had a travel history to a country in South-East Asia. The second case from India has a travel history to a country in the Arabian Peninsula.

Reports of new Nipah virus cases in India have once again brought the disease to global attention. With a fatality rate that can climb as high as 75 per cent and no approved vaccine or antiviral ...

What is Nipah virus? Symptoms to watch out for as India races to contain deadly outbreak - Nipah is a deadly virus with no vaccine or cure and considered a high-risk pathogen by the World Health Organ ...

Following the Nipah virus outbreak in India, we asked experts about ongoing research into treatments, if there is a cause for concern, and whether they think another quarantine situation is likely.

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in ...

The WHO has assessed India’s recent Nipah virus cases as low risk, saying there is no evidence of increased human-to-human spread. With cases limited to West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, the ...

Two Nipah cases have been identified in India which has led to surveillance across the country and in adjoining places.