Nipah virus outbreak in India renews calls to protect bat roosts

It was more than two weeks before doctors even realized what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds of people had been exposed to the bat pathogen. Halting the disease’s spread required deploying…

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