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Nipah virus
This page is medical background from WHO/CDC citations. It is not current-event intelligence.
- Pathogen
- Nipah virus
- Transmission
- Fruit bats, sick animals, and close contact with body fluids of an infected person (WHO).
- Incubation
- Usually 4–14 days (WHO).
- Typical symptoms
- Fever, headache, cough; encephalitis and severe respiratory disease in some cases.
- Treatment
- Supportive care (WHO).
- Vaccine
- No licensed vaccine (WHO).
- Historical fatality
- Recorded outbreaks have had high case-fatality (WHO).