[ad_1] The State government on Tuesday handed over ₹17 lakh to the parents of Titto Thomas, a health worker from Mangaluru who has been in coma after contracting Nipah encephalitis. The money allocated from the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund was given to T.C. Thomas and Eliyamma, his parents, by Thottathil Raveendran, MLA. Titto, 26, […]
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[ad_1] Health Minister Veena George said that fieldwork in and around Kumaramputhur was ramped up on July 13, 2025, following the Nipah case detection. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu A fresh Nipah case in Palakkad district has sent alarm bells ringing and sparked fears that the deadly virus hasn’t been contained despite the best […]
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[ad_1] Kerala Health Minister Veena George during an online meeting with Palakkad district officials on the evening of July 4, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As many as 425 people entered the contact lists of two Nipah-infected persons in Kerala — 228 of them in Malappuram district, 110 in Palakkad and 87 in Kozhikode. […]
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[ad_1] The districts have been directed to make public announcements and detailed contact tracing, ensuring that no one is left out. | Photo Credit: SAKEER HUSSAIN The Kerala Health department on Friday (July 4, 2025) issued an alert in three districts – Kozhikode, Malappuram and Palakkad – after two cases of the Nipah virus have […]
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[ad_1] Nipah scare resurfaces in Kerala two months after the previous case Nipah virus returns in Kerala, sparking fresh fear in the State. An 18-year-old girl who succumbed to acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Kozhikode two days ago and a 38-year-old woman currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital at Perinthalmanna in Malappuram district have […]
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[ad_1] The case of Nipah virus was confirmed in a 42-year-old woman from Ward 2 of Valanchery municipality on May 8. A patient infected with the Nipah virus in Malappuram district of Kerala has tested negative for the virus in two separate samples and is now considered technically free of the infection, Kerala Health Minister […]
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[ad_1] It is my experience that interviewees are rarely interested in you. Occasionally, at the end of the meeting, they may lean back and ask a couple of cursory questions about your work. But, on a Wednesday evening at the Kerala House in Delhi, K.K. Shailaja had barely walked into the room before I was […]
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