Nipah virus: a re-emerging public health concern
Ziqi Cui, Jing Li, Ling Meng, Zhenjie Zhang
Abstract
The Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly virulent, single-stranded RNA virus of the Paramyxoviridae family.1 It causes a widespread zoonotic illness that first emerged among pig farmers in northern Peninsular Malaysia in 1998, and has regularly and repeatedly led to many epidemics since 2001 in Bangladesh, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and other countries.2 According to a report3 of an outbreak in Bangladesh from Dec 15, 2004, to Jan 31, 2005, individuals were infected with NiV after consuming date palm sap tainted with bat urine, following a 2-week to 3-week incubation period.
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