Thailand, Nepal, Taiwan and China, are some of the countries that have ramped up screenings at major airports. Passengers arriving from West Bengal at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang and Phuket in Thailand are subject to screening for Nipah Virus related symptoms including fever.

HEALTH chiefs are scrambling to contain an outbreak of ‘brain swelling’ bat-borne virus considered ‘next pandemic’. At least five people in India’s West Bengal state have now tested positive

Airports have now introduced Covid-style checks in an attempt to stall an outbreak of a deadly virus with no cure and epidemic potential

Some airports have put travel screening in place following an outbreak of the Nipah virus

Asian countries are on high alert after cases of the deadly Nipah virus were detected in West Bengal, India. The zoonotic virus can spread between animals and people, mostly fruit bats and pigs, with mild to severe symptoms from fevers to brain infection and death, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Several Asian nations have ramped up health surveillance and travel screening following confirmed Nipah virus infections in West Bengal, citing the disease’s high fatality rate and lack of a vaccine.

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Some Thai fruit bats carry a strong strain of the Nipah virus, but the bigger danger comes from infected people arriving from countries where there is an outbreak of the disease, health authorities said on Monday.

Earlier this month, two health workers at a private hospital at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal had tested positive for Nipah virus