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A 33-year-old patient at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital was kept alive for 48 hours using artificial lungs after ...

Nepal, Feb. 2 -- Nipah virus, a deadly zoonotic virus, was first reported in Malaysia in 1998. The country documented a total of 265 human cases, including 105 deaths (nearly 40 percent), largely ...

Recent public health alerts in India, including the Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal and the avian influenza (bird flu) ...

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Is this a sign of another pandemic? After WHO confirmed 2 cases of the highly lethal Nipah virus in India, airports across the world are on high alert. Compulsory screening and mandatory isolation - ...