Lessons to be learnt from the Nipah virus outbreak in Singapore. < Back to Listing. Share this Article. Singapore Med J 1999; 40(5):331-2. Lessons to be learnt ...

The next year the disease spread to abattoir workers in Singapore. The movement of the disease was a consequence of transport of pigs from ...

In Malaysia and Singapore, Nipah virus infected people with close contact to infected pigs. In Bangladesh and India, the disease has been linked to consumption ...

No new cases of febrile illness associated with Nipah virus infection have been identified in Singapore since March 19, 1999, when abattoirs ...

Singapore banned the import of all live pigs from Malaysia from 1999 to 2017 due to the previous Nipah outbreak Experts are warning of the ...

Discussion. The Nipah virus outbreak in Singapore was associated with importation and slaughter of infected pigs from Malaysia. Evidence for a causal ...

Nipah virus was first identified in 1999 following a large outbreak affecting Malaysia and Singapore. The virus is one of eight categories of ...

MeSH terms. Abattoirs; Animals; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; Diagnosis, Differential; Disease Outbreaks*; Encephalitis, Viral / diagnosis ...

Abstract. Background: In March 1999, an outbreak of encephalitis and pneumonia occurred in workers at an abattoir in Singapore. We describe the clinical ...

No new cases reported in Singapore or Malaysia since then. Further outbreaks of Nipah virus infection have occurred elsewhere, mainly in western Bangladesh ...