The World Health Organization has assessed the Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal, India, after two nurses were confirmed ...

Two nurses in India's West Bengal have been infected with Nipah virus, prompting the WHO to assess the outbreak and Asian ...

Two confirmed cases of the rare virus prompted the WHO and other health officials to activate their outbreak responses.

Recent cases have largely been detected in southern Kerala state. A major outbreak in 2018 killed at least 17 people there.

Nipah outbreaks have occurred almost annually in Asia, particularly in Bangladesh and India. Cases have also been reported in ...

India confirmed 2 laboratory-confirmed cases of Nipah virus infection in the state of West Bengal in January 2026; both patients were 25-year-old nurses employed at the same private hospital in ...

“Work is ongoing to establish a global platform for countries to report genome sequencing of detected cases,” Singapore’s Communicable Diseases Agency said in a statement. Most of the more recent ...

Indian authorities have contained a Nipah virus outbreak after confirming two cases in eastern West Bengal state ...

One of the most widely known risks linked to the COVID-19 vaccine is myocarditis, especially in young males — and now a new Stanford study has shed some light on why this rare effect can occur.

West Virginia pharmacists can now give COVID-19 shots without prescriptions, according to guidance issued Oct. 6 by the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy. Earlier in the season, prescriptions were ...