14-year-old infected with Nipah virus in Kerala dies, Centre to assist in tackling outbreak
According to Kerala Health Minister Veena George, the boy from Pandikkad suffered a massive cardiac arrest at 10.50 am on Sunday and efforts to revive him failed.
Express News Service Updated on: 21 Jul 2024, 6:47 am
MALAPPURAM: The 14-year-old boy from Pandikkad in Malappuram who was infected with Nipah passed away on Sunday while under treatment for the disease at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital. The boy, who was surviving with the help of a ventilator at the hospital, suffered a massive cardiac arrest at around 10:50 am.
"The boy was in an unconscious state. The urine output of the boy was very low. He suffered a massive cardiac arrest. The doctors tried their level best to save the boy. Unfortunately, he passed away at around 11:30 am," said Health Minister Veena George. ...
DJ see also https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/07/india-moh-fatal-nipah-infection-in.html - https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/07/india-moh-fatal-nipah-infection-in.html or https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2024/07/india-moh-fatal-nipah-infection-in.html
Eighteen months ago, in https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2023/02/eid-journal-nipah-virus-exposure-in.html - EID Journal: Nipah Virus Exposure in Domestic and Peridomestic Animals Living in Human Outbreak Sites, Bangladesh, 2013–2015, we looked at a dispatch that described the detection of NiV antibodies in cattle, dogs, and cats in proximity to known outbreaks in humans
Whether Nipah has - or will ever accrue - the `right stuff' to pose a genuine pandemic threat is unknowable, but in 2019 the WHO published their http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/who-list-of-blueprint-priority-diseases.html - List Of Blueprint Priority Diseases, detailing 8 disease threats in need of urgent accelerated research and development.
And Nipah, along with its Australian cousin https://afludiary.blogspot.com/2021/10/australia-novel-variant-of-hendra-virus.html - Hendra , were among them.
While Nipah remains more of a regional concern than a global threat, each new human infection and every spillover event provides the virus with another opportunity to better adapt to a new host.
And as we are well aware, nature is nothing if not persistent.
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus_infection - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus_infection or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus_infection