Two brothers and sisters die due to unknown virus in Rajshahi, parents admitted to hospital

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.

From Mitford to Oxford: Bangladeshi researcher Zakiul is working to tackle Nipah virus

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 […]

Newborns inherit humoral immunity against Nipah virus from their mothers: Study

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 […]

Nipah virus threat

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 […]

IEDCR claims, Nipah under control

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- One killed in Kushtia

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 […]

Red alert on unusual death

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 […]