Indian nurse infected with Nipah virus dies

Fruit bats from the Pteropodidae family are considered the natural host of Nipah virus and are present in different parts of Asia and in Australia.

An Indian health worker who contracted the deadly Nipah virus in December has died, a senior health official from the eastern state of West Bengal said on Thursday.

According to Reuters News Agency, the nurse was one of two people in the state who were infected and was being treated at a local hospital since last month.