Following the Nipah virus outbreak in India, we asked experts about ongoing research into treatments, if there is a cause for ...

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus, usually transmitted from animals such as fruit bats to humans or through contaminated food.

Some Thai fruit bats carry a strong strain of the Nipah virus, but the bigger danger comes from infected people arriving from ...

Health Officials Issue Important Update on New Bat Virus ...

The Nipah virus was spotted in India where it infected two people. No cases of the potentially lethal virus have been ...

Scientists in Bangladesh discovered a new bat-borne virus called PRV in five patients who initially appeared to have Nipah ...

In a world still feeling the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, news of a potential new viral threat can quickly raise alarm. That was the case following reports in India of a recent outbreak of ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new bat virus that they fear is already spreading in humans. The infection was spotted in people ...

This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Some bats like ...

Vietnamese health authorities are stepping up surveillance for the deadly Nipah virus following fresh concerns linked to a ...

Hundreds of thousands of straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) gather at Kasanka National Park, Zambia, creating one of ...