{"id":11345,"date":"2026-01-28T16:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:39:02","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-deadly-nipah-virus-amid-outbreak-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/28\/what-to-know-about-the-deadly-nipah-virus-amid-outbreak-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about the deadly Nipah virus, amid outbreak in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/01\/27\/nipah-virus-outbreak-india\/\">Washington Post<\/a> Some airports in Asia are on alert after confirmed cases in West Bengal of Nipah virus, which has no cure. South Asia sees outbreaks nearly every year. Airports in Southeast Asia are on alert this week after the confirmation of an outbreak of Nipah virus, which has no known cure, in West Bengal, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prdthailand\/status\/2015299127488499920\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"implemented&nbsp;, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">implemented&nbsp;<\/a>health screening checkpoints for passengers from West Bengal on Sunday and Taiwan\u2019s Centers for Disease Control announced plans to list the disease as a Category 5 threat, local media&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cna.com.tw\/news\/ahel\/202601250160.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"reported, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Some airports in Asia are on alert after confirmed cases in West Bengal of Nipah virus, which has no cure. South Asia sees outbreaks nearly every year. Airports in Southeast Asia are on alert this week after the confirmation of an outbreak of Nipah virus, which has no known cure, in West Bengal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-nipah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11346,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}