Health authorities in India say they have contained a potential outbreak of a bat-borne virus with no approved vaccine or cure. With a fatality rate between 40% to 75%, authorities in several Asian ...

A virus that officials say “has a relatively high death rate” has led to COVID-style health checks at several airports in Asia. Five people in in West Bengal, India, have contracted the Nipah virus, ...

Two cases of the deadly Nipah virus have been reported in India, infecting two nurses. Symptoms can range from fever and headache to severe brain swelling, with a high fatality rate. Two cases of the ...

When the common cold rips through a household, it can leave a wildly uneven path of symptoms. The same cold-causing rhinovirus that produces barely a sniffle in one person can cause a week of ...

HYDERABAD, India — There is a low risk of the deadly Nipah virus spreading from India, the World Health Organization said Friday, adding that it did not recommend travel or trade curbs after two ...

Move over, COVID. There's a new life-threatening and incurable virus rampaging throughout the nation, and RadarOnline.com has learned so far that there is no effective way to stop it. Government ...

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GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - A World Health Organization official said on Friday that the risk of the spread of the Nipah virus is low, saying that none of the over 190 contacts of the two people ...

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Ian Lipkin, an experimental pathologist at Columbia University, is today most famous for discovering more than 2,000 viruses, which earned him the moniker “virus hunter,” over a decades-long career in ...