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Airports across Asia reintroduce Covid-style health checks after outbreak of deadly Nipah virus in India

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Airports across parts of Asia have begun tightening health surveillance and travel screening after an outbreak of the Nipah virus in an Indian state.

Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan are among the countries and territories that have stepped up precautionary measures after two Nipah virus cases were confirmed in India’s West Bengal. [200 contacts quarantined, but apparently testing negative for the virus]

Nipah is a zoonotic disease that mainly spreads to humans from infected pigs and bats, but can also be passed on through close person-to-person contact.

Nipah virus

Nipah virus (Henipavirus nipahense) is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very high case fatality rate (40–75%).