{"id":443643,"date":"2026-01-28T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443643\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:19:13","slug":"what-is-the-highly-fatal-nipah-virus-and-where-is-it-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443643\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the highly fatal Nipah virus, and where is it spreading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/health-care\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">India confirms cases in Kolkata, prompting Thai airports to bolster screening<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260128N Virus check at airport\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Thai authorities are bolstering\u00a0quarantine measures at airports for travelers arriving from\u00a0West Bengal, as they did during a past\u00a0Nipah outbreak, seen here. (Suvarnabhumi Airport Office\/handout via Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>TAKANORI OKABE and YUJI NITTA<\/p>\n<p>January 28, 2026 17:46 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on January 29, 2026 00:39 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MUMBAI\/HANOI &#8212; An outbreak of the highly fatal Nipah virus appears to be emerging in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, and Southeast Asian countries are bolstering quarantine measures in response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Care India confirms cases in Kolkata, prompting Thai airports to bolster screening Thai authorities are bolstering\u00a0quarantine measures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,11224,137,500,32603,1460,1467,230384,2469,7277,316],"class_list":["post-443643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fatal","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-highly","tag-is","tag-it","tag-nipah","tag-spreading","tag-virus","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}