Fruit bats, also known as flying foxes, are the natural hosts for Nipah. Nipah is in the same group of viruses as a number of ...

KOTA BARU: For more than 30 years, Mek Jah Yaakub has been depending on the nipah palm to make a living and support her 15 children. Mek Jah, 53, sits on the cement floor of her house at Pantai ...

Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic ... particularly fruit bats of the Pteropus genus, or consumption of contaminated food products ...

The Nipah virus has already been found in these districts in either fruit bats or people. The fruit bat breeding season, which runs from May to September each year, is thought to be the time when ...

The primary carrier or the source of this virus is the Fruit bats, particularly those of the Pteropus genus. Studies have shown that the Nipah virus can transmit from one individual to another via ...

In India, experts have fanned out in southern state of Kerala to collect samples of fluid from bats and fruit trees in a region where the deadly Nipah virus has killed two people and three more have ...

Every year, the months from May to September, which coincide with the breeding season of fruit bats. (Image Credits: Pixabay) Nipah virus: Ahead of the bat breeding season, Kerala’s Health ...

The months between May and September were earlier considered crucial because they are the mating season of fruit bats, the principal carriers of the Nipah virus. However, some other studies have ...