Officials in India are scrambling to prevent the spread of a potentially deadly virus with “pandemic potential.” And in this case the virus is not the Covid-19 coronavirus. It’s the Nipah Virus, which hasn’t caused a pandemic yet since it was first discovered in 1999. But, as they say in the minor leagues and local theater productions to up-and-comers, it’s got potential.
Early on Sunday, a 12-year-old boy in Kerala, a southern state in India, tragically died from a Nipah virus infection after he had spent about a week in a hospital. He was originally admitted for a high fever but his condition progressively worsened as he began exhibiting signs of encephalitis, which is inflammation and swelling of the brain. When testing of blood samples sent to the National Institute of Virology revealed the presence of the Nipah virus, officials knew they had to move quickly to prevent the virus from spreading any further. Contact tracing efforts are under way with all close contacts being quarantined. The boy had come into contact with a total of 188 people with 20 of them considered high-risk close contacts.
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