Abstract

REVIEW: NIPAH VIRUS A GLOBAL CHALLENGE

Dongare Vrushali Shantaram*, Sawant Mayuri Rajesh, Pravin Ramdas Adsul, Vaibhav N. Kadam and Dr. Sanjay Ingale

ABSTRACT

The enlargeded urbanization as well as changing environmental conditions has led to climb up in epidemics of new diseases affecting livings health every year. In 1998 Nipah virus was first identified in Malaysia and in 2001 in Bangladesh and India. In Malaysia in several pig farming communities Nipah virus infection has occurred there is no any approved and acceptable vaccine to protect against the infection. This rapidly increasing infection has become the most dangerous threats to the social health in Bangladesh as well as in the world mainly due to its periodic outbreak and the rapidly increasing devastating mortality rate. Firstly to investigate the disease propagation as well as to control strategy of Nipah virus disease is the main purpose of this paper. The natural host of the Nipah virus is fruits eaten by flying foxes of the pteropodidae family according to world Health organization major Nipah virus outbreak occurred in pigs and humans in Malaysia from September 1998 to April 1999. From these it is concluded that about 265 people are infected and 105 people are death due to Nipah virus infection. About 1.1 million pigs had to be destroyed for control these outbreak. The disease was registered in the form of a major outbreak in India in 2001 and then a small incidence in 2007.

Keywords: Nipah encephalitis, flying foxes, WHO, Zoonotic, hendra virus.