Following the death of a 12-year-old boy from Nipah, the test results of ten of those in contact were negative. Health Minister Veena George said the results of the eight tests were negative from the Pune Institute of Virology and two from the Trunat test conducted at Kozhikode Medical College. Continue Reading
With the admission of two more suspected Nipah infected patients into the isolation ward specially developed by the state health department to treat the suspected virus infected patients, the total number of suspected virus infected people, who have been placed in the aforesaid type of ward, has reached the number of seven. Meanwhile, the state […]Continue Reading
One case of Nipah has been confirmed by the heath authorities in the Indian state of Kerala. As many as four people who maintained close contact with the victim have been quarantined. The body fluids of the quarantined persons have been sent to the main virology institutes in the country situated in Manipal, Pune and […]Continue Reading