Vincent Hsu, M. Jahangir Hossain, Umesh D. Parashar, Mohammed Monsur Ali et al.
We retrospectively investigated two outbreaks of encephalitis in Meherpur and Naogaon, Bangladesh, which occurred in 2001 and We collected serum samples from persons who were ill, their household contacts, randomly selected residents, hospital workers, and various animals. Cases were classified as l...
David J. Williams, Mohd Abul Faiz, Bernadette Abela-Ridder, Stuart Ainsworth et al.
In one of his final essays, statesman and former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said, ‘Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of’ [1]. Mr. Annan firmly believed that victims of snakebite envenoming should be recognised and afforded greater efforts at improve...
Stephen P. Luby, Emily S. Gurley, M. Jahangir Hossain
Nipah virus (NiV) is a paramyxovirus whose reservoir host is fruit bats of the genus Pteropus. Occasionally the virus is introduced into human populations and causes severe illness characterized by encephalitis or respiratory disease. The first outbreak of NiV was recognized in Malaysia, but 8 outbr...
Stephen P. Luby, Jahangir Hossain, Emily S. Gurley, Be‐Nazir Ahmed et al.
Human Nipah outbreaks recur in a specific region and time of year in Bangladesh. Fruit bats are the reservoir host for Nipah virus. We identified 23 introductions of Nipah virus into human populations in central and northwestern Bangladesh from 2001 through 2007. Ten introductions affected multiple ...
Raj Kumar Singh, Kuldeep Dhama, Sandip Chakraborty, Ruchi Tiwari et al.
Nipah (Nee-pa) viral disease is a zoonotic infection caused by Nipah virus (NiV), a paramyxovirus belonging to the genus Henipavirus of the family Paramyxoviridae. It is a biosafety level-4 pathogen, which is transmitted by specific types of fruit bats, mainly Pteropus spp. which are natural reservo...
Brenda Ang, C. C. Tchoyoson Lim, Lin‐Fa Wang
Nipah virus, a paramyxovirus related to Hendra virus, first emerged in Malaysia in 1998. Clinical presentation ranges from asymptomatic infection to fatal encephalitis. Malaysia has had no more cases since 1999, but outbreaks continue to occur in Bangladesh and India. In the Malaysia-Singapore outbr...
Jan Felix Drexler, Victor M. Corman, Florian Gloza‐Rausch, Antje Seebens et al.
BACKGROUND: Henipaviruses (Hendra and Nipah virus) are highly pathogenic members of the family Paramyxoviridae. Fruit-eating bats of the Pteropus genus have been suggested as their natural reservoir. Human Henipavirus infections have been reported in a region extending from Australia via Malaysia in...
Ridwanur Rahman, Maryam Faiz, Shahjada Selim, Bayzidur Rahman et al.
BACKGROUND: Snake bite is a neglected public health problem in the world and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in many areas, particularly in the rural tropics. It also poses substantial economic burdens on the snake bite victims due to treatment related expenditure and loss of prod...
Vikrant Sharma, Sulochana Kaushik, Ramesh Kumar, Jaya Parkash Yadav et al.
Since emergence of the Nipah virus (NiV) in 1998 from Malaysia, the NiV virus has reappeared on different occasions causing severe infections in human population associated with high rate of mortality. NiV has been placed along with Hendra virus in genus Henipavirus of family Paramyxoviridae. Fruit ...
Gyanendra Gongal, A. E. Wright
There are eleven Member States in the WHO southeast Asia region (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste) of which eight are endemic for rabies. More than 1.4 billion people in the Region are at risk of r...
Md Saiful Islam, Hossain M. S. Sazzad, Syed Moinuddin Satter, Sharmin Sultana et al.
Nipah virus (NiV) is a paramyxovirus, and Pteropus spp. bats are the natural reservoir. From December 2010 through March 2014, hospital-based encephalitis surveillance in Bangladesh identified 18 clusters of NiV infection. The source of infection for case-patients in 3 clusters in 2 districts was un...
Mafalda Viana, Sarah Cleaveland, Jason Matthiopoulos, Jo E. B. Halliday et al.
Morbilliviruses cause many diseases of medical and veterinary importance, and although some (e.g., measles and rinderpest) have been controlled successfully, others, such as canine distemper virus (CDV), are a growing concern. A propensity for host-switching has resulted in CDV emergence in new spec...
Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, Kalyanee Boongird, Sawai Wanghongsa, Nitipon Ratanasetyuth et al.
After 12 serial Nipah virus outbreaks in humans since 1998, it has been noted that all except the initial event in Malaysia occurred during the first 5 months of the year. Increasingly higher morbidity and mortality have been observed in subsequent outbreaks in India and Bangladesh. This may have be...
Ren Minghui, Matthew D. Stone, Maria Helena Semedo, Louis H. Nel
Rabies is one of the oldest and most terrifying diseases known to man. Written and pictorial records of rabies date back more than 4000 years, and today it is endemic in more than 150 countries around the world.1World Health Organization Rabies: key facts.http://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/...
GBD 2019 Snakebite Envenomation Collaborators, Nicholas L S Roberts, Emily K. Johnson, Scott Zeng et al.
Snakebite envenoming is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal autopsy and vital registration data to model the proportion of venomous animal deaths due to snakes by location, age, year, and sex, an...