Thiruvananthapuram: The Health Minister Veena George on Wednesday said in the assembly that the brain-damaging Nipah virus, which has killed two people out of four infected, was a strain of the Bangladesh variant that spreads from human to human. Health Minister said that the variant has a high mortality rate but was less infectious.
Veena George confirmed that the recent “unnatural deaths” in state’s Kozhikode district were a result of the virus
Minister said that a series of measures being implemented to address the health crisis including surveillance, contact tracing, categorizing individuals into low and high-risk groups, establishing isolation facilities, marking containment zones, and procuring medicines from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for those who are infected.
The Minister was responding to a query by CPI MLA P Balachandran during the Question-Answer hour regarding the measures taken to deal with the Nipah virus which has killed two and infected two others in Kozhikode.
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