Overview
- The confirmed infections involve two healthcare workers at a private hospital north of Kolkata, with authorities suspecting exposure to an untested patient who later died.
- WHO issued no travel or trade restrictions and said India has the capacity to contain localized outbreaks.
- Several Asian countries tightened entry screening, including Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China, Nepal and Vietnam, and Pakistan suspended direct flights to India.
- Indian health officials have intensified surveillance, laboratory testing and field investigations, and both patients remain hospitalized.
- Nipah is a high-fatality zoonotic virus carried by fruit bats with no approved vaccine or specific treatment, and European public-health officials assess the risk of spread to Europe as very low.