The father of both the children, Manzoor Hussain, is a mathematics teacher at Rajshahi Cadet College. He lives with his family in the Cadet College Quarters. He is from Chuniyapara village of Durgapur upazila of Rajshahi. The younger daughter developed fever on Wednesday morning and died while being taken to the hospital in the afternoon. […]
Two minor brother and sister died of unknown virus in Chuniyapara village of Durgapur, Rajshahi after eating Boroi (plum). Later, doctors took his parents into isolation. The dead are 2-year-old Muntaha Marisha and 5-year-old Muftaul Masiya. They were the daughters of Monjur Hussain, 35, a teacher at Rajshahi Cadet College, and Polly Khatoon, 30.
The team was examining a patient suffering from Nipah virus at Faridpur Medical College Hospital. The intern physician contracted the virus while caring for three infected children in 2010 and unfortunately died from the disease. At the time, Zakiul was unaware of the virus’s potential for person-to-person transmission. While studying about the dead doctor, she […]
Nipah virus infection: Survivors face long-term effects
Why is the Nipah virus outbreak so worrying?
According to Professor Mohammad Najmul Islam, director of the DGHS’s infectious disease control branch, cases of the virus have been reported in Rajbari, Naugaon, Rajshahi, Shariatpur, Pabna and Dhaka districts this year. Dr Najmul believes there is no need to panic, but stresses the need to proceed with ‘extreme caution’. “There is no vaccine for […]
The ICDDR, B scientist said that the effectiveness of immunity in neutralizing the virus and its ability to protect newborns requires further exploration. “This (research) will also be a reference for vaccine recommendations for pregnant and young women against Nipah virus,” Dr Moinuddin said. According to the World Health Organization, the worldwide mortality rate of […]
Usually when a Nipah virus infected bat drinks raw date, the raw date becomes a source of Nipah virus for men. Bat’s saliva and urine transmits the virus. Bangladeshis like to drink raw date in the winter. It seems impossible to change the habit. Boiled date juice doesn’t transmit the disease. When a man becomes […]
Two people, including a 12-year-old boy, died of encephalitis in Rangpur Medical College Hospital Thursday afternoon, hospital sources said. But doctors and acreage workers of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Ascendancy and Research, said the affection did not advance the latest two deaths were acquired by nipah virus. IEDCR accepted afterlife of 17 patients out […]
Nipah virus dead a adolescent man at Kushtia General Hospital bygone morning, adopting the afterlife assessment to 31 in the country. Fulchand Ali, 30, of Shimulia apple in Mirpur upazila of the district, was accepted to the hospital with aerial agitation on Saturday afternoon. He died at about 10:00am Sunday, Dr Taposh Kumar Pal, citizen […]
Government of Bangladesh has declared red alert in Rangpur ( Hatibandha, Lalmonirhat) due to unusual death. Symptom of the disease is fever. That claimed until now at least 24 lives in Rangpur and Lalmonirhat Later, it was identified by experts as encephalitis (inflammation of brain tissue) caused by Nipah virus. It is certainly an alarming […]