Dr. Mahendra J V shares the top warning signs that a Nipah-infected patient ay develop after contracting the strain. Read on to know more about this virus.

Named for the Malaysian village where it was first identified, the Nipah virus is an infectious disease transmitted primarily by bats.

A 25-year-old nurse in India has died after contracting the Nipah virus, senior health officials in the country have warned.

Bangladeshi researchers have uncovered an emerging bat-borne virus in archived throat swabs and viral cultures from five ...

Scientists discover how yellow fever and encephalitis viruses enter human cells, and block them with decoy molecules.

A mosquito-borne viral disease exceedingly rare in people killed a horse in Lackawanna County, though no human cases have been reported locally. County officials citing the state Department of ...

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%. Several countries, including Thailand, ...

New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn a deadly pathogen into a harmless bug or supercharge a relatively benign ...

Cameron Webb and the Department of Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology and University of Sydney, have been engaged by a wide range of insect repellent and insecticide manufacturers to provide ...

West Nile virus (WNV) has recently emerged as a significant and increasingly frequent etiology of encephalitis in this country. Even though WNV has been in the limelight of the national news media and ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Mosquitoes in Imperial County tested positive for a virus that causes brain inflammation, the county health department announced. A mosquito pool collected near Palm Avenue in ...