New Delhi: An in depth advisory on precautions to be taken towards the Nipah virus was issued by the Karnataka Health Commissioner Dr KV Trilok Chandra on Sunday (September 12, 2021). While issuing the advisory Karnataka Health Commissioner mentioned that the people who’re coming from Kerala will likely be stored beneath surveillance.
“We have already issued a detailed advisory on precautions to be taken against the Nipah virus. Advanced surveillance measures are already in place at all border districts. People coming from Kerala will be under surveillance,” he mentioned.Â
Earlier, on September 7, the state government issued an advisory to forestall the outbreak of the an infection of the Nipah virus in Karnataka and the well being division instructs the district administrations to watch the arrivals from Kerala for signs like fever, altered psychological standing, extreme weak spot, headache, respiratory misery, cough, vomiting, muscle ache, convulsion and diarrhoea.
In the advisory issued earlier, the Karnataka government, stating that Human Nipah Virus (NiV) an infection is an rising zoonotic illness, had mentioned that in India, two outbreaks in people have been reported from West Bengal and neighboring Bangladesh in 2001 and 2007.
Further, confirmed instances and deaths have been additionally reported from Kerala in the course of the outbreak in 2018. The well being division additionally added that this virus may also be transmitted from individual to individual and thru contaminated meals.
(With Agency inputs)
