MP seeks centre's help to contain outbreak of 'rare' virus in

Lok Sabha MP and former union minister Mullappally Ramachandran today sought the central government's intervention to contain the outbreak of what he termed was a 'rare and deadly' virus in some parts of Kozhikode district.

In a letter to union health minister J P Nadda, a copy of which was made available to the press here, Ramachandran said some panchayats, including Kuttiyadi and Perambra, in his Lok Sabha constituency of Vatakara were in the grip of the "deadly virus."
He said some doctors have termed it as Nipah virus, while others said it was zoonotic, and that the spread is fast and fatal