Kaushal Baid

1 week ago | nature.com | Pragya D. Yadav |Kaushal Baid |Alison Peel |Jonathan Epstein |Joel Montgomery |Henrik Salje

AbstractNipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic paramyxovirus belonging to the genus Henipavirus, which infects Pteropus bat species in Southeast and South Asia. Since its discovery in the late 1990s in Malaysia, NiV has caused outbreaks in humans in Singapore, Bangladesh, India and the Philippines. The spillover pathway for the most recent NiV outbreak in 2023 in Kerala, India, remains speculative.