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Deadly outbreak | Nipah virus
The Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala in 2018 was, in retrospect, the first true outbreak people had witnessed in living memory. For a population fed, on screen, with pacy narratives, dizzying tales of disease, horror and death, the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak was a horrifying reel-to-real conversion. It was when NiV hit Kozhikode district, in Kerala, in 2018, where 21 of 23 persons infected died, that the attention of not merely the health system, but also the public in general was willy nilly drawn towards the virus. Notably, Kerala’s handling of the outbreak also provided solid lessons for public health emergencies — isolating patients, contact tracing, quarantining, triaging, implementing infection control protocols, etc.
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