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The Kerala government Wednesday said the condition of the college student being treated at a private hospital for Nipah virus is stable while the condition of five others kept under watch was improving. A total of 311 people from various districts are under observation, Health Minister K K Shailaja said. "The condition of the student is stable. It has not turned worse," she said, a day after the 23-year old student here was confirmed to be infected with Nipah virus. A medical bulletin issued by the hospital Tuesday night had said he was admitted on May 30 and "the patient is clinically stable, slowly improving and his fever is subsiding." Talking to reporters here, Shailaja said samples collected from the five people currently being treated at the isolation ward of Kalamassery Medical College Hospital have been sent to National Institute of Virology in Pune this morning. "The preliminary assessment of their health shows that they are not in a se...

Kerala govt has made all necessary arrangements to stem the spread of panic due to the virus infection whose first outbreak was in Malaysia and has claimed as many as 300 lives since Current Affairs News : The deadly   Nipah virus   (NiV), which has so far killed nine people in Kerala, is reported to be fast-spreading. While the state government has made all necessary arrangements to stem the spread of panic and sanctioned an emergency fund of Rs 2 million (Rs 20 lakh) to the Kozhikode Medical College to tackle the fever outbreak, the Centre on Monday sent a multi-disciplinary   National   Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) team. In a series of tweets on Monday evening, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's office said the "government is closely monitoring the spread of the   Nipah virus. Health department is doing everything possible to save the lives of the infected & prevent the advance of virus". CM Vijayan further assured that the st...

There is no vaccine for either humans or animals as the primary treatment for human cases is intensive supportive care Current Affairs News : The outbreak of   Nipah   virus in the southern state of Kerala has put the Kerala   health department on high alert.   At least nine people have died in Kerala's Calicut district due to high fever with two out of the nine deceased were affected with the rare   Nipah   virus. Kerala Health Secretary Rajiv Sadanandan told IANS that they have now got the confirmation from the National   Institute of Virology, Pune. The health department has, however, not confirmed the cause of the death of the other seven patients and sent their samples for tests. "The samples of the other deceased have been sent for tests to virology institute Manipal. A task force has been formed under District Collector U V Jose for further probe on it," an official from the health department said. Nipah virus   (NiV) inf...