Web Directory

» CIDRAP: Nipah Virus
   Provides information on the virus, its hosts, epidemiology, possible use as a biological weapon, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control.
   http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/biosecurity/ag-biosec/anim-disease/nipah.html

» Center for Emerging Issues: Nipah Virus
   Emerging disease notice issued in 1999.
   http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/emergingissues/downloads/nipahupd.pdf

» Merck Veterinary Manual: Nipah Virus Infection
   Etiology, epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis, clinical findings, diagnosis, treatment, control, prevention and zoonotic risk.
   http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/53900.htm

» NIH: Scientists Discover How Nipah Virus Enters Cells
   Report detailing how two research teams have identified how Nipah and Hendra viruses gain entry into human and animal cells.
   http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2005/niaid-06.htm

» Nipah Virus Infection
   Factsheet on this emerging disease which can spread from its wildlife reservoir to pigs and humans where it causes an often fatal disease.
   http://www.spc.int/rahs/Manual/Porcine/nipahE.htm

» Nipah Virus Infection: Pathology and Pathogenesis of an Emerging Paramyxoviral Zoonosis
   Paper published in the American Journal of Pathology in 2002 about this previously unrecognized paramyxovirus infection.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1850894/?tool=pubmed

» SEARO: Nipah Virus Infection
   Provides information on this emerging infectious disease of public health importance in South-East Asia. Includes information on the fruit bats that transmit the virus, the mode of transmission, clinical presentation, laboratory diagnosis, prevention and
   http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/CDS_Nipah_Virus.pdf

» WHO: Nipah Virus
   Factsheet on this emerging viral infectious disease provided by the World Health Organization.
   http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs262/en/