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The Nipah virus was spotted in India where it infected two people. No cases of the potentially lethal virus have been ...

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Following the Nipah virus outbreak in India, we asked experts about ongoing research into treatments, if there is a cause for concern, and whether they think another quarantine situation is likely.

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Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus, usually transmitted from animals such as fruit bats to humans or through contaminated food.

The number of people getting sick with influenza B has gone up for three weeks straight, now making up about a third of flu cases nationwide.

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Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH), a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), ...

Experts explain how Nipah virus spreads, why it's so deadly, and whether it poses a threat in the U.S., Texas or Austin.