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In the last few days, the media has been abuzz with reports of a rare virus — Nipah virus — which has broken out in India.

Does Australia have the Nipah virus? Authorities in Australia are closely monitoring a Nipah virus outbreak in India, which ...

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It’s far deadlier than COVID-19, so could Australia be plunged into another lockdown over a Nipah virus outbreak? Here is ...

Health Minister Mark Butler says the government is monitoring the outbreak of the highly deadly Nipah virus “very closely” ...

It’s a terrible disease. Around half the people who get severe Nipah virus infection die of it. The symptoms can vary in severity. It can cause pneumonia, just as COVID could. But the illness we worry ...

Two cases of the virus, which has no vaccine and a mortality rate between 40 and 75 per cent, have been confirmed in West Bengal. India’s health ministry said this week that authorities have ...