Convergence of Humans, Bats, Trees, and Culture in Nipah Virus Transmission, Bangladesh.
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Authors
Gurley, Emily S
Hegde, Sonia T
Hossain, Kamal
Sazzad, Hossain MS
Hossain, M Jahangir
Rahman, Mahmudur
Sharker, MA Yushuf
Islam, M Saiful
Epstein, Jonathan H
Khan, Salah U
Kilpatrick, A Marm
Daszak, Peter
Luby, Stephen P
Publication Date
2017-09Journal Title
Emerg Infect Dis
ISSN
1080-6040
Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Volume
23
Issue
9
Pages
1446-1453
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Print
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Gurley, E. S., Hegde, S. T., Hossain, K., Sazzad, H. M., Hossain, M. J., Rahman, M., Sharker, M. Y., et al. (2017). Convergence of Humans, Bats, Trees, and Culture in Nipah Virus Transmission, Bangladesh.. Emerg Infect Dis, 23 (9), 1446-1453. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2309.161922
Abstract
Preventing emergence of new zoonotic viruses depends on understanding determinants for human risk. Nipah virus (NiV) is a lethal zoonotic pathogen that has spilled over from bats into human populations, with limited person-to-person transmission. We examined ecologic and human behavioral drivers of geographic variation for risk of NiV infection in Bangladesh. We visited 60 villages during 2011-2013 where cases of infection with NiV were identified and 147 control villages. We compared case villages with control villages for most likely drivers for risk of infection, including number of bats, persons, and date palm sap trees, and human date palm sap consumption behavior. Case villages were similar to control villages in many ways, including number of bats, persons, and date palm sap trees, but had a higher proportion of households in which someone drank sap. Reducing human consumption of sap could reduce virus transmission and risk for emergence of a more highly transmissible NiV strain.
Keywords
Animals, Chiroptera, Humans, Nipah Virus, Zoonoses, Henipavirus Infections, Risk, Case-Control Studies, Feeding Behavior, Disease Outbreaks, Rural Population, Bangladesh, Phoeniceae
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2309.161922
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/331106
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