There is no vaccine for it and no cure, and it has many strains capable of spreading from person to person, increasing the chances of a strain emerging with the ability to rapidly spread beyond the region.
Luby, a professor of infectious diseases at Stanford University, has done extensive research on Nipah and the bats that spread it in Bangladesh through their contamination of fresh date palm sap, a popular drink in the country.
Luby cowrote a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examines the role of Pteropus medius bats and human-caused environmental factors in Nipah’s spread. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, edited the study.
The study finds there are multiyear cycles of transmission across the bat population that likely contribute to Nipah virus shedding and human risk. We have known for many years that in Bangladesh there is a clear seasonality to human Nipah infections. They occur during...
learn more
Nipah virus kills around three-quarters of the people it infects and currently, there's neither a vaccine or cure.
Ratings & Reviews
Entrepreneur & Investor
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE