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Rare deadly virus kills more than a dozen in India, health officials warn it could cause global epidemic
Another patient has died in India from the Nipah virus, taking the number of fatalities from an outbreak of the rare disease to 13, authorities said Sunday.
Emergency measures have been imposed to curb the spread of the virus, with dozens of patients quarantined since the outbreak was detected this month.
Health experts have been flown to Kerala to help contain the virus, which has a mortality rate of 70 percent and no vaccine.
The World Health Organization has listed it as one of the eight priority diseases that could cause a global epidemic, alongside Ebola and Zika.
Another patient has died in India from the Nipah virus, taking the number of fatalities from an outbreak of the rare disease to 13, authorities said Sunday.
Emergency measures have been imposed to curb the spread of the virus, with dozens of patients quarantined since the outbreak was detected this month.
Health experts have been flown to Kerala to help contain the virus, which has a mortality rate of 70 percent and no vaccine.
The World Health Organization has listed it as one of the eight priority diseases that could cause a global epidemic, alongside Ebola and Zika.