{"id":230422,"date":"2026-02-03T01:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nipah-virus-outbreak-has-asia-on-high-alert-amid-deaths-in-india"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:45:06","slug":"nipah-virus-outbreak-has-asia-on-high-alert-amid-deaths-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nipah-virus-outbreak-has-asia-on-high-alert-amid-deaths-in-india","title":{"rendered":"Nipah Virus Outbreak Has Asia on High Alert Amid Deaths in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nipah-virus-outbreak-has-asia-on-high-alert-amid-deaths-in-india.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An outbreak of the deadly Nipah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">virus<\/a> in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/nipah-virus#:%7E:text=Nipah%20virus%20usually%20transmits%20from, supportive%20care%20can%20improve%20survival.\">40% and 75%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, have introduced new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-01-29\/what-do-we-know-about-india-nipah-virus-outbreak\/106280738\">screening and testing measures<\/a>, after at least <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/nipah-virus-amid-cases-detected-india\/story?id=129667635\">two people<\/a> died of Nipah virus in the Indian state of West Bengal this month.<\/p>\n<p>But what is Nipah virus, and how concerned should we be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%. Several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, have introduced new screening and testing measures, after at least two people died of Nipah virus in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}