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Nipah is a zoonotic virus with a high mortality rate Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an entertainment reporter ...

Two cases have been detected in India among health care workers.

India is moving quickly to contain a Nipah virus outbreak in the eastern state of West Bengal after two cases were confirmed by the federal health ministry. Nearly 200 people have been quarantined ...

The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday.

Nipah is a zoonotic virus with a high mortality rate Authorities in India have confirmed that two cases of Nipah virus have been reported Two nurses at a private hospital near Kolkata, West Bengal, ...