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Cases Within Family, A Mystery Death: How Kerala Doctor Helped Detect Nipah Outbreak On Time

Nipah Virus Infection: A Kozhikode doctor's swift action is being hailed as instrumental in detecting the virus and helping the government impose restrictions to contain its spread.

As Kerala battles its fourth Nipah outbreak in the last five years, a Kozhikode doctor's swift action is being hailed as instrumental in detecting the virus and helping the government contain it timely. Dr Anoop Kumar AS, a critical care specialist and a member of the Kerala government's expert advisory panel on Covid-19, was also the first to raise an alarm on Nipah during the first outbreak in 2018.  This time around, he stumbled upon the Nipah virus while handling the case of two
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