Nipah virus, a highly lethal pathogen belonging to the Paramyxovirus family, has caused multiple outbreaks in South and ...

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Health officials in Britain have published a list of the disease-causing viruses they believe pose the greatest risk to humans for the first time.

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Nipah is one of the pathogens that Moderna has ... The virus – usually contracted through contact with fruit bats – first cause a documented outbreak in Malaysia and Singapore in 1998, with ...

and Nipah virus, which is mainly spread by fruit bats and can cause brain swelling. Related How EU countries compare on readiness for the next health crisis Eight of these pathogen families are at ...

However, it also includes the Nipah virus which causes brain swelling and death - this can be spread from bats or pigs to humans. Large measles outbreaks have been reported across the globe ...