Authorities Kerala, on South Indiatake preventive measures after 14-year-old boy dies from Nipah virus and the identification of 60 people in the high-risk category, said Veena George, the state’s health minister.

According to an investigation conducted by Reuters Last year, some districts of Kerala were among those holding The world’s greatest risk of suffering from virus outbreaks.

The Nipah virus, which is transmitted from bats and other animals such as pigs, can cause a deadly fever that inflames the brain in people.

Nipah virus may trigger epidemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies Nipah virus as a priority pathogen due to its potential to cause an epidemic.

There is no vaccine to prevent infection or to treat it to cure it.

“The infected child died on Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest,” Veena George told local television reporters.

Earlier in a statement on Saturday, he said that as part of its control over Nipah, the government had issued an order to set up 25 committees to identify and isolate the victims.

They discover Nipah positive case in child in Calicut

Meanwhile, Anup Kumar, director of the intensive care unit at Aster MIMS hospital in Calicut, said he has been diagnosed Positive case of Nip in schoolboy and that people who had contact with him are under surveillance.

“At this stage, there is minimal possibility of an outbreak of Nipah virus,” he explained, adding that the situation would be monitored over the next seven to 10 days.

The child’s primary contact list includes 214 people. Of these, 60 are in the high-risk group, and isolation wards have been set up in healthcare facilities to treat patients.

Relatives of the infected patient have been admitted to a local hospital for observation after a case of Nipah virus infection was confirmed in Malappuram, a town about 350 kilometres from Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram, according to local media reports.

Other people who might be at risk were asked to They are isolating themselves in their homes.

The state government said it was working to trace the affected people to contain the spread of the virus.

Nipah was associated with Dozens killed in Kerala since it first appeared in the state in 2018.

The virus was first identified 25 years ago in Malaysia and has caused outbreaks in Bangladesh, India and Singapore. (Reuters)