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The Nipah virus was spotted in India where it infected two people. No cases of the potentially lethal virus have been ...

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus, usually transmitted from animals such as fruit bats to humans or through contaminated food.

A study in Emerging Microbes & Infections reports that VV116—an oral antiviral already approved for Covid-19 treatment in China and Uzbekistan—strongly inhibited Nipah virus strains in the lab and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) says there is a low risk that the deadly Nipah virus will spread beyond India, where two ...

Two Nipah virus cases were reported in India, prompting swift public health action, travel precautions, and close international monitoring.