INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ANI | Updated: Jun 06, 2019 15:14 ISTKochi (Kerala) [India], June 6 (ANI): Out of the seven patients who were admitted to the hospital
suspecting Nipah virus infection, one has been tested positive while the other six have been tested negative.Kerala Health MinisterKK
Shailaja said at a press briefing here on Thursday, "7 patients are admitted to hospital, one patient's result is positive for Nipah virus
6 patients' results are negative
No one has been discharged from the isolation ward
Source of the virus is not confirmed yet."On the other hand, two persons suffering from high fever were put under observation at Trivandrum
Medical College on Thursday
Their samples have been sent for examination.On June 4, a 23-old-man had tested positive for Nipah virus infection, which killed 17 people
in Kerala last year.As of now, a total of 15 people are under observation in the state.Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh
Vardhan had on June 4 said that the Centre had rushed a team of doctors to Kerala for investigation in the wake of the scare of Nipah
virus.Vardhan had asserted that he is "very vigorously" following the situation.Nipah virus is transmitted from animals to humans and then
spreads through people to people contact, causing respiratory illness.Its symptoms include fever, muscle pain, headache, fever, dizziness
