In Nipah Virus the worrying aspect is its propensity to infect close family contacts and healthcare workers through human-to-human transmission. The Kerala state government has taken certain decisions to interrupt the transmission. Seven panchayats in Kozhikode have been declared containment zones. What is also critical is to train frontline health workers and doctors in public and private sectors on case definitions and mechanisms to collect and transport samples, informed Prof Rajib Dasgupta.
Just when the world was starting to believe that the novel coronavirus pandemic, which claimed millions of lives globally and locked down economies for the bett
Just when the world was starting to believe that the novel coronavirus pandemic, which claimed millions of lives globally and locked down economies for the bett
Just when the world was starting to believe that the novel coronavirus pandemic, which claimed millions of lives globally and locked down economies for the better part of two years, was on its way out, the deadly new Omicron BF.7 strain reinforced the home truth that the world has certainly not seen the last of the pandemic.