Nipah Surveillance, India's Indigenous HPV Test & a Rare Pediatric Diagnosis

1. ICMR Team Arrives in Kerala to Monitor Nipah Situation Following the confirmation of a Nipah virus case in Kerala, an ICMR team has reached Kozhikode to test close contacts of the patient. While three samples tested negative , the team has held discussions with local doctors and district authorities regarding the case and the preventive measures in place. More than 85 contacts of the 43-year-old patient are currently under surveillance, and the team is expected to remain in the district for a few more days.

Meanwhile, a team from the National Centre for Disease Control is also scheduled to visit the district. 2. India Validates First Indigenously Developed HPV Test Researchers from AIIMS, ICMR, and the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have validated India's first indigenously developed HPV test for cervical cancer screening. The chip-based real-time PCR assay,…