A 25-year-old female nurse infected with the Nipah virus died on Thursday after being unconscious in hospital since January 6. After testing positive for Nipah in early January, she had tested negative on February 8. The health department official said this was the first death of a Nipah patient in Bengal since 2007, when the state had faced an outbreak of the virus. “The (female) patient had been under prolonged critical care for severe systemic complications, including sepsis with septic shock and autonomic dysfunction,” a hospital official said. The male nurse, who had been discharged earlier, has improved and visited the hospital for a checkup on Wednesday.

Source: The Telegraph February 13, 2026 01:56 UTC