{"id":76269,"date":"2026-02-07T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/07\/one-person-dead-from-nipah-virus-in-bangladesh-who-says"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:45:43","slug":"one-person-dead-from-nipah-virus-in-bangladesh-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76269","title":{"rendered":"One person dead from Nipah virus in Bangladesh, WHO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case in Bangladesh, where Nipah cases are reported almost every year, follows two Nipah virus cases identified in neighbouring India<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization said on Friday that a woman had died in northern Bangladesh in January after contracting the deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/jan\/28\/what-is-nipah-virus-outbreak-india-symptoms\">Nipah virus<\/a> infection.<\/p>\n<p>The case in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/bangladesh\">Bangladesh<\/a>, where Nipah cases are reported almost every year, follows two Nipah virus cases identified in neighbouring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a>, which has already prompted stepped-up airport screenings across Asia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/07\/one-person-dead-from-nipah-virus-in-bangladesh-who-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case in Bangladesh, where Nipah cases are reported almost every year, follows two Nipah virus cases identified in neighbouring IndiaThe World Health Organization said on Friday that a woman had died in northern Bangladesh in January after contracti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,327,1043,346,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-bangladesh","category-epidemics","category-health","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76270,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76269\/revisions\/76270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}