A nurse infected during a recent outbreak of the brain-damaging virus Nipah in India has died, following a weeks-long coma, health official has said.
The 25-year-old woman nurse contracted the virus in late December after coming into contact with an infected date sap.
Although she later tested negative for the virus, officials said she developed multiple complications and died on Thursday following a lung infection and cardiac arrest.
While her colleague, who was also infected with Nipah, was discharged last month.
The nurse’s death marks the second reported death from Nipah since a small outbreak began in West Bengal.
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a woman in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, had also died after contracting the virus.
WHO said no people the patient came into contact with tested positive for Nipah, also called NiV.
