Nipah
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- Malaysia has also fallen victim to a disease spread by new farming techniques: the Nipah virus, which appeared in the country's pig and human populations in 1998, killing 105 people and forcing the Malaysian government to cull more than one million pigs to stop the spread.
- Nipah virus
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Researchers traced the origins of the Nipah virus back to fruit bats found near the village of Nipah.
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The Nipah virus was first identified in the village of Nipah in Malaysia.
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In Malaysia, a virus called Nipah spilled over from fruit bats in 1998.
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The Nipah outbreak highlights what can happen when people and domestic animals modify previously undisturbed wild habitats.
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And certainly there's A/H1N1, Ebola in Africa, and the Nipah and Hendra viruses.
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Recently, the Nipah and Chandipura viruses were identified as responsible for acute encephalitis outbreaks in Malaysia and India (2, 3).
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No samples were positive for chikungunya, Nipah, or West Nile viruses; Bartonella henselae; or malaria parasites.
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Examples of such city states included Lagashe, Uma UR, Nipah, Iridu, Lhasa and Uruk itself, which retained its power but not its hegemony.
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Nipah virus has caused outbreaks of encephalitis in humans in Malaysia and Bangladesh; although it has been found in bats in Thailand, it has not yet been identified in humans (32, 33).
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The role of bats as reservoirs and sources of potential emerging viral infections has been extensively studied with regard to Nipah, Hendra, lyssavirus, and coronaviruses (6, 7, 10).
Academic text (2012)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nipah is the name of a small village in Malaysia where scientists first found the virus. That's why the disease is called the Nipah virus, because it takes the village's name.