A teenage girl died of a ‘brain -erasing’ virus that experts fear can arouse the ‘next pandemic’
The 18-year-old, from Malappuram, a city in the Kerala region in India, tested positively for the Nipah virus, which kills more than two-thirds of the infected people.
The virus, which is supported by fruit bats and continues to people through their excrement and saliva, is from the same viral family as measles, making it very contagious.
On July 2, the nameless woman suffered from the acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), which is the brain inflammation, and is often accompanied by a start of fever and neurological symptoms.
Civil servants have also confirmed that there has been a second case of a 38-year-old woman from Palakkad who is in a critical condition.
The woman is treated in the private hospital Perinthalmanna in the city, De Hindu reported.
There are 425 people in three districts that have been identified as contacts of the two women, who may have come into contact during a social event.
Of these people, 12 receive treatment in Malappuram, including five in intensive care.
Authorities are still waiting for full test results to determine how many people can be infected.
Health workers Remove the body of a person who died of the Nipah virus in September 2023 (file photo)
It is important to note that one of the patients who receive treatment has tested negatively for the disease.
There was rather an outbreak of the virus that inspired the Hollywood -Pandemic thriller ‘contamination’ in the Kerala region in 2023.
Last month, researchers found two new viruses that are closely related to Nipah and the deadly Hendra virus.
The infections, which can cause severe brain inflammation and respiratory diseases, are discovered in bats in China.
Experts have expressed urgent concern about the potential of these viruses to jump to the locals.
These were found in fruit bats (Rousettus leschenaultia) who live near orchards near human villages in Yunnan.
Since Henipairus can spread through urine, the study calls for concern about contaminated fruit and the risk that these viruses will jump to people.
The team published their findings in the magazine Plos Pathogens.
They wrote: ‘By analyzing the infectome of bat kids that have been collected in the vicinity of village orchards and caves in Yunnan, we have not only discovered the various microbe-bats, but also the first full of new Bat-Borne Henipaviruses who are closely related to Hendra and Nipah-Viruss identified.’ ‘
They said that their findings make the urgent concerns about the potential for these viruses to spill over in people or cattle. ‘
Bats are natural reservoirs for a wide range of micro -organisms, including some that have been transferred to people earlier.
A theory is that the Coronavirus could have originated in bats and then could have been spilled in people, which activated the global Covid -Pandemie.
However, others claim that it comes from a ‘Lablek’ or from other animals that are sold on a wet market.
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