WASHINGTON — Several Asian countries have introduced or reinforced precautionary screening measures at airports for Nipah virus after two confirmed cases in India. The World Health Organization said both people with confirmed cases of Nipah virus are ...

OVID-19 changed the world. Now, another deadly virus has prompted several airports to reinstate some of the rules used during the COVID years. Health authorities are racing to contain a Nipah virus outbreak in India’s eastern state of West Bengal after ...

A virus that officials say “has a relatively high death rate” has led to COVID-style health checks at several airports in Asia. Five people in in West Bengal, India, have contracted the Nipah virus, according to the Thai government, while India’s ...

Some countries are on high alert after two cases of a deadly, incurable virus were reported in India this week. India’s Health Ministry said Monday, Jan. 26, that two nurses at a private hospital near Kolkata, West Bengal, had been diagnosed with Nipah ...

In January 2026, India reported two new cases of the Nipah virus in the West Bengal area. One of the patients is reportedly showing signs of improvement, while the other is receiving critical care. This often deadly zoonotic virus has a fatality rate of ...

Cases of a specific respiratory virus are spiking in several states across the U.S. right now. In California, concentrations of HMPV were high in San Francisco, Sacramento, Napa and several other areas based on recent WastewaterSCAN data.