A brief summary of the infectious disease outbreaks reported from the state of Kerala between May 2018 and May 2019 by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program of India. Despite the perception that the Infectious Disease challenge has been adequately met in India, the threat of outbreaks remain.
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#VisualAbstracts: Humans, Bats, Trees, Culture and Nipah Virus Transmission
A recent publication in the CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal talks about the factors related to the emergence of zoonotic infections. They have studied Nipah virus infections in man. This is another effort to bring visual abstracts for infectious disease publications of interest to me. The abstract of the paper: Preventing emergence of new zoonotic … Continue reading #VisualAbstracts: Humans, Bats, Trees, Culture and Nipah Virus Transmission
Bangladesh Sees 9 Nipah Virus Cases in First 8 weeks of 2015
According to the report of the Bangladesh Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, there have been 9 cases of Nipah virus encephalitis in the country in the first two months of 2015. Of these 9 cases, 6 have died, attributing a 67% mortality to the disease in the current year.The consumption of fruit and … Continue reading Bangladesh Sees 9 Nipah Virus Cases in First 8 weeks of 2015
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