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Animal Husbandry department and Fores officials deposit a bat into a container after catching it inside a well at Changaroth in Kozhikode in the Indian state of Kerala on May 21, 2018. AFP
A deadly virus carried by fruit bats has killed at least five people in southern Indi and more than 90 people are in quarantine, a top health official said Tuesday.
Other deaths are suspected to have bee caused by Nipah virus and authorities have ordered emergency measures to control the outbreak.
“We can confirm that five people have died from the Nipah virus,” Kerala state health surveillance officer K.J. Reena tol AFP.
Media reports said 10 people had died bu officials told AFP final tests had not bee completed on other suspicious deaths.
Nine people have been admitted to hospital with symptoms resembling the virus, which the World Health Organizatio says is fatal in 70 percent of cases, Reen added.
One of the nine has tested positive for Nipah.
“We also traced 94 people who had com in contact with the ones who died and they have been quarantined as a precaution,” Reena added.
There is no vaccination for Nipah, which has killed more than 260 people in Malaysia, Bangladesh and India in outbreaks since 1998.
The WHO has named Nipah as one of th eight priority diseases that could cause an epidemic, alongside Ebola and Zika.
The virus induces flu-like symptoms that lead to an agonising encephalitis and coma.
Three members of the same family are among the fatalities. Dead bats were found in a well of the family’s house in Kozhikode district, previously known as Calicut.
Heroic nurse
A nursing assistant who died after treatin Nipah patients has been hailed as a hero by authorities.
Mother-of-two Lini Puthussery was cremated even before her family member could bid a final goodbye because of fear the virus could spread.
In a final note she scribbled in a hospital isolation unit, Puthussery urged her husband to take care of the children.
“I don’t think I will be able to see you again. Sorry. Please take care of our children,” she said.
Kerala state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that Puthussery’s “selfless service will be remembered”.
Health authorities across the state were on high alert, setting up medical camps and a control room to tackle the emergin situation.
U.V. Jose, the district collector of Kozhikode, said all government and private hospitals were working in close coordination.
“Health staff are visiting individual households giving them specific instructions including about eating fruits from outside and other precautions,” he told AFP.
The neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu ha stepped up surveillance in border district fearing the spread of Nipah.
Nipah was first identified in Malaysia in 1998. It spread to Singapore and more than 100 people were killed in both places. On that occasion, pigs were the virus hosts but they are believed to have caught it from bats.
In India the disease was first reported in 2001 and again six years later, with the two outbreaks claiming 50 lives.
Both times the disease was reported in areas of the eastern state of West Benga bordering Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has borne the brunt of the disease in recent years, with more than 100 people dying of Nipah since a first outbreak was reported in 2001. In 2004, humans became infected with Nipah afte eating date palm sap that had been contaminated by fruit bats.

when your village witch are ready to strike you down, nothing can avert it.

Nina or whatever your name is, u better come to school. Exams commence on Monday or else na spillover

Godwin978:
space that as already been occupied,

keep fooling yourself with job vacancy in Nigeria

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seguno2:
And your point is

adult abuse lol

electric shocker kor, na special padlock you for ask. so that anybody wey access your phone him destiny go just LOCK.
OLUKU

wait a minute! is it not this guy that went and marry his class teacher that is 24 years older than him. and him still get mind fall in 9ja

this French presido is very young and simple.

always looking young

Auxtin85:
You lack proper upbringing, from all indication you are an orphan. Product of a broken condom

well you are talking from experience. so I don't blame you. I pity those around you that will be affected by your idiotic life

Auxtin85:
You lack proper upbringing, from all indication you are an orphan. Product of a broken condom

well you are talking from experience. so I don't blame you. I pity those around that will be affected by your idiotic life

alaoeri:
Maradona lacks managerial skills being a great player doesn't make u a good coach, go and seat down jare.

I agree with you.
moreover that maradono guy is a drugs addict.he drugs don empty his brain

UP BRAZIL

Auxtin85:
You are the biggest fool for not seeing what is before you. If you don't want a civil war be prepare to vote your ancestors out of office come 2019.

is it your fathers ass that is before you and your mother's Kitty

Auxtin85:
These are signs of what is about to happen in Nigeria, i see another civil war it is inevitable only God can avert it.

You are a big Fool for saying CIVIL WAR. Ask ur father or grandfather what he saw between 1967-1970.
OLUKU

please, this kind of daily explosion, fire outbreak and massacre in this country is becoming too much.
All the men of God in Nigeria and Herbalist should come together and dialogue.
#we need Jesus

olaniputu:
Thunder scatter Buhari Insha'Allah amin
Thunder scatter Buhari Insha'Allah amin
Thunder scatter aisha masha Allah amin

oga, is buhari your problem?

these men have their own freedom. billionaire money men(bmm).

I just pray and work harder to be like you

OK. NEXT TOPIC

This is incredible.

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