By Rathindra Kuruwita People should not avoid the consumption of cooked meat in view of the Nipah virus, Dr Saranga Sumathipala, Consultant Virologist of the Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) said.

The new virus — eventually called Nipah — is on the World Health Organization's list of viruses most likely to cause a global pandemic. It's the virus that inspired the 2011 movie Contagion .

Nipah virus (NiV) is zoonotic, which means it spreads to humans through animals. The first known outbreak happened in Malaysia and Singapore in 1999. Now, outbreaks are common in other parts of ...

The Nipah virus is not related to COVID-19, but may have the same originating source — bats. The host of the virus is fruit bats, also known as flying foxes because of their large size.

Nipah virus is suspecting of killing at least 10 people in southwestern India, including a nurse caring for patients, according to officials there. The little-known virus has never been seen in ...

With a fatality rate as high as 75%, Nipah virus is a public health menace you need to know.

Today Dr. Kaw Bing Chua is a scientist at Temasek Life Sciences in Singapore. When he discovered the Nipah virus, he was a graduate student at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ...

The Nipah virus is a highly contagious and deadly virus that was first identified in 1999 when pig farmers in Malaysia and Singapore became very sick. During that outbreak, nearly 300 people were ...

It was a balmy Sunday evening in early 1999, and Dr. Kaw Bing Chua hadn't had lunch or dinner. There wasn't time to eat. Chua was chasing a killer. And he thought maybe he had finally tracked it ...

A Taste For Pork Helped A Deadly Virus Jump To Humans People were dropping dead in Malaysia, and no one could figure out why their brains were swelling. A young scientist solved the mystery.