Nipah is not new to the subcontinent. First identified in Malaysia in 1998, it surfaced in West Bengal in 2001 and later in Kerala, where outbreaks in 2018 and 2023 resulted in multiple fatalities.

Asia steps up airport screenings after a deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India, raising concerns over zoonotic diseases and ...

Changes to land use can directly heighten the risk of diseases spreading from animals to humans, new University of ...

The field of zoonotic infectious diseases, particularly those involving tick-borne pathogens, has taken center stage in global health due to the rapid ...

Zoonotic diseases jump species to infect humans, and scientists have been studying this transmission chain for many years. Researchers in Austria aimed to perform a comprehensive analysis of the ...

Climate change is increasingly influencing the dynamics of waterborne pathogens by modifying hydrological regimes, water temperatures, and the frequency and ...

The rapid identification and genomic analysis of zoonotic pathogens are critical for safeguarding public health and controlling outbreaks. PathoBase, an advanced computational platform, provides a ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently sounded the alarm concerning a growing risk of disease outbreaks in Africa attributable to zoonotic pathogens, after finding a 63 per cent rise in the ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3 - Good health and wellbeing. Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases in which the pathogen (whether it be a virus, bacterium, ...

Despite fears, Nipah virus is unlikely to spark a global pandemic like Covid-19 due to low human-to-human transmission.

A genomic deep dive shows that manure-feeding flies may be silent super-spreaders, transferring and amplifying resistant pathogens from livestock waste into the farm environment. Study: Genomic ...