"Nipah virus (NiV) is a paramyxovirus (Henipavirus genus, Paramyxovirinae subfamily, Paramyxoviridae family, order Mononegavirales), an emerging virus that can cause severe respiratory illness and deadly encephalitis in humans. It is a negative sense, single-stranded, nonsegmented, enveloped RNA virus possessing helical symmetry."
Mortality 59% encephalitis is usual cause of death human to human transmission has been reported Reservoir is fruit bats in SE asia Often spreads to pigs then humans 639 human cases since first described in 1998 survivors often have long lasting neurologic disorders
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