Nipah virus is among the deadliest zoonotic pathogens known to modern medicine - a disease with no vaccine, no specific antiviral treatment and a fatality rate that can reach as high as 75%. The latest confirmation of two Nipah cases in India's West Bengal has once again pushed the virus into regional focus. Indian authorities have stressed that the cases were detected early and contained through enhanced surveillance and field investigations, with nearly 200 contacts traced and found........

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