Question

Give an brefif note on the new viruse called "NIFA VIRUS "and also give the history about it..

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Answer 1

Nipah virus infection is a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both humans and animals.  Zoonosis means a disease that can be transmitted to humans from animals. The natural host of the virus is fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, Pteropus genus (fruit-eating species), according to WHO. 
Nipah virus was first identified in Kampung Sungai Nipah, Malaysia in 1998. The pigs were the intermediate hosts during that outbreak. Around 1.1 million pigs had to be killed to control the outbreak. However, it is not necessary to have an intermediate host during Nipah Virus outbreak.
In India, Nipah Virus affected the humans without any involvement of pigs. The first outbreak was observed in Siliguri, West Bengal in 2001. The second incident also emerged in Nadia district in West Bengal in 2007. Scientists have found that humans often contracted the disease by drinking raw date palm sap tapped directly from trees, a sweet treat that fruit bats also enjoy. The virus claimed over 300 lives across Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh and India between 1998 and 2008, according to WHO. 

Answer 2

A viral disease generated by the Nipah virus is known as the Nipah virus infection. This virus is a kind of RNA virus in the species Henipavirus. Named after a village of Malaysia called Sungai Nipah, where this disease was first recognised, the Nipah virus can be spread by both people and animals. The symptoms of the Nipah Virus include headache, fever, cough, confusion and shortness of breath. If not given proper treatment this disease can lead a person to come over a day or two. The risk of illness is high for people working in the hospital and particularly taking care of infected people. In Malaysia and Singapore, this epidemic befell in those with close contact with infected pigs.