Overview
- Indian health teams traced 196 contacts from the two West Bengal cases and found no secondary infections, indicating effective containment.
- The World Health Organization and Japan's health ministry assess the risk of wider spread as low, and Japan has reported no cases.
- Pakistan infectious-disease experts report no detected cases and note the lack of in-country Nipah testing, with suspected samples to be sent to the NIH.
- Airports across several Asian countries have implemented precautionary screening to support early detection and preparedness.
- Researchers identified Pteropine orthoreovirus in Bangladesh patients with Nipah-like illness, underscoring the need to widen diagnostics beyond Nipah.