Bahrain has asked its nationals to avoid travelling to Kerala until an outbreak of the rare Nipah virus, spread by fruit bats, is under control, the Gulf state’s consulate in Mumbai said on its Twitter account on Wednesday.
The virus can cause flu-like symptoms and brain damage, and the outbreak has already killed 10 people in Kerala, with at least nine more being treated, officials said.
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Two people suspected to be infected with the brain-damaging Nipah virus are under treatment in Karnataka, a health official said on Wednesday, after an outbreak of the rare virus in Kerala killed 10.
Symptoms of the virus were seen in a 20-year old woman and a 75-year-old man in Karnataka’s port city of Mangalore after they traveled to Kerala and came into contact with infected patients there, Rajesh B.V., a district surveillance officer said.
Neighbouring states are on alert after te outbreak of Nipah virus infection in Kerala. Ten persons have so far lost their lives to the Nipah virus in the northern Kerala districts of Kozhikode and Malappuram, health department sources said.