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Nipah Virus: Chandigarh health dept puts hotels on alert!

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Nipah Virus: Chandigarh health dept puts hotels on alert!
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Nipah Virus: Chandigarh health dept puts hotels on alert! The Chandigarh health department has sent out an alert to all the hotels in the city after Nipah virus has become deadly in the northern Kerala. It has asked all hotels to keep a check on travellers from the southern state, and alerted animal husbandry officials to maintain a vigil. Officers from animal husbandry department have also been informed to stay alert with preventive measures. Nipah Virus: Chandigarh health dept puts hotels on alert! “We have informally sounded an alert and have informed all hoteliers in the city to keep a check on travellers visiting from Kerala and West Bengal. A formal advisory, signed by director health services, will also be issued soon,” said Dr Upendrajeet Singh Gill, assistant director, Malaria wing, UT. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines Nipah virus infection as a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both animals and humans. The natural host of the virus are fruit bats. Even human-to-human infection has been documented. The virus spread among humans and animals by consuming food and fluids contaminated with saliva and droppings of the infected bats. The infection can be both asymptomatic and present symptoms, including fever, headache, drowsiness, disorientation, mental confusion, coma, that can potentially lead to death. -PTC News-
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