Transmission of Nipah Virus — 14 Years of Investigations in Bangladesh

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Authors

Birgit Nikolay · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Henrik Salje · Institut Pasteur

M. Jahangir Hossain · MRC Unit the Gambia

A. K. M. Dawlat Khan · International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Hossain M. S. Sazzad · International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Mahmudur Rahman · Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research

Peter Daszak

Abstract

Increasing age and respiratory symptoms were indicators of infectivity of Nipah virus. Interventions to control person-to-person transmission should aim to reduce exposure to body fluids. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and others.).

Topics & Keywords

Virology and Viral Diseases Viral Infections and Vectors Respiratory viral infections research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Zero hunger

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 380, Issue 19, pp. 1804-1814

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1805376

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