Directory of Nipah Virus Resources

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Nipah virus infection is an emerging disease endemic to Southeast Asia, carried by fruit bats of the genus Pteropus. It can affect humans, pigs and occasionally other domesticated animals.

Resources in This Category

• Center for Emerging Issues: Nipah Virus

  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/emergingissues/downloads/nipahupd.pdf
  Emerging disease notice issued in 1999.

• Merck Veterinary Manual: Nipah Virus Infection

  http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/generalized_conditions/nipah_virus_infection/overview_of_nipah_virus_infection.html
  Etiology, epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis, clinical findings, diagnosis, treatment, control, prevention and zoonotic risk.

• Nipah Virus Infection

  http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/nipah.pdf
  Detailed factsheet with information on the disease, its importance, distribution and transmission and the infections it causes in both humans and other animals.

• Nipah Virus Infection

  http://www.spc.int/lrd/ext/Disease_Manual_Final/nipah_virus_infection.html
  Factsheet on this emerging disease which can spread from its wildlife reservoir to pigs and humans where it causes an often fatal disease.

• Nipah Virus Infection: Pathology and Pathogenesis of an Emerging Paramyxoviral Zoonosis

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1850894/?tool=pubmed
  Paper published in the American Journal of Pathology in 2002 about this previously unrecognized paramyxovirus infection.

 

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