The Nipah Virus is a type of virus that comes from bats and infects humans as well as other animals.
Nipah virus, scientific name Nipah henipavirus, is a bat-borne virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a high mortality rate.
Numerous disease outbreaks caused by Nipah virus have occurred in South and Southeast Asia.
Nipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic virus, meaning that it can spread between animals and people.
Fruit bats, also called flying foxes, are the animal reservoir.
There are no drugs or vaccines that directly treat a Nipah virus infection.
For treating the Nipah virus doctors use supportive care instead.
This means they focus on rest, hydration, and treating specific symptoms as they happen.
Researchers are looking into Nipah virus treatments that involve the immune system, called monoclonal antibodies.
The Nipah virus was isolated and identified in 1999.
The Nipah disease is named after a village in Malaysia, Sungai Nipah.
Pigs may also be infected, and millions were killed by Malaysian authorities in 1999 to stop the spread of disease, a measure which proved to be successful.
Nipah virus can survive for days in fruit juice or flying-fox urine.
Since date palm sap is sold and consumed within a few hours of collection, consumers could ingest infectious virus.