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Overview
- All confirmed infections involve doctors and nurses from the same hospital in West Bengal.
- Roughly 100 to 110 contacts have been placed in quarantine and are under monitoring in Kolkata.
- Health authorities are conducting contact tracing and RT‑PCR testing, including sampling bats to investigate the source.
- Neighboring authorities in Thailand, Nepal, Taiwan and Hong Kong have tightened precautions at airports and border points.
- No vaccine or specific treatment exists for Nipah, which has an estimated 40%–75% case‑fatality rate and a typical incubation of 4–14 days, while experts judge the global pandemic risk to be low and call for continued vigilance.