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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Research

Nipah Virus Transmission from Bats to Humans Associated with Drinking Traditional Liquor Made from Date Palm Sap, Bangladesh, 2011–2014

M. Saiful IslamComments to Author , Hossain M.S. Sazzad, Syed Moinuddin Satter, Sharmin Sultana, M. Jahangir Hossain, Murshid Hasan, Mahmudur Rahman, Shelley Campbell, Deborah L. Cannon, Ute Ströher, Peter Daszak, Stephen P. Luby, and Emily S. Gurley
Author affiliations: Icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M.S. Islam, H.M.S. Sazzad, S.M. Satter, M.J. Hossain, M. Hasan, S.P. Luby, E.S. Gurley); Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research, Dhaka (S. Sultana, M. Rahman); Medical Research Council, London, United Kingdom (M.J. Hossain); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Campbell, D.L. Cannon, U Ströher); EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA (P. Daszak); Stanford University Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford, California, USA (S.P. Luby)

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Case definitions for Nipah virus (NiV) infections that occurred in 3 clusters, Rangpur and Rajshahi Districts, Bangladesh, 2011, 2012, and 2014

Type of case
 Case definition
Suspected
 Fever or history of fever with axillary temperature >38.5°C, altered mental status, new onset of seizures, or a new neurologic deficit in a patient from an adult or pediatric ward of an NiV surveillance hospital during the NiV season (3).
Probable
 Illness meeting the case definition for suspected NiV infection in a person who lived in the same village as a person with laboratory-confirmed NiV infection but who died before specimens could be collected for diagnosis (19).
Laboratory-confirmed
 Acute onset of fever and subsequent altered mental status or other neurologic deficits during the outbreak period and having NiV IgM or IgG antibodies in serum (19).
Primary
 A case in which illness occurred in the absence of contact with a symptomatic case-patient.
Secondary Illness in a person whose only known exposure was to a case-patient and whose illness occurred within 5–15 d after that contact (20).

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