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Volume 29, Number 2—February 2023
Dispatch

Nipah Virus Exposure in Domestic and Peridomestic Animals Living in Human Outbreak Sites, Bangladesh, 2013–2015

Ausraful IslamComments to Author , Deborah L. Cannon, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Salah Uddin Khan, Jonathan H. Epstein, Peter Daszak, Stephen P. Luby, Joel M. Montgomery, John D. Klena, and Emily S. Gurley
Author affiliations: icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh (A. Islam, M.Z. Rahman, E.S. Gurley); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D.L. Cannon, J.M. Montgomery, J.D. Klena); Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (S.U. Khan); EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA (J.H. Epstein, P. Daszak); Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (S.P. Luby); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (E.S. Gurley)

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Table 1

Spillover human Nipah virus infection cases and bat roost and animal sampling, 6 sites, Bangladesh, 2013–2015*

Characteristic Outbreak site
1 2 3 4 5 6 All sites
Date of outbreak
 2013 Jan
 2013 Mar
 2014 Jan
 2014 Jan
 2015 Jan
 2015 Jan
No. human cases
 2
 7
 4
 4
 7
 5
District
 Rajshah
 Manikgonj
 Faridpur
 Magura
 Faridpur
 Naogaon
Bat roost sampled, Y/N
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 N
 Y
Ct value, median (IQR)
 38.62 
(38.50–38.72)
 29.94 
(29.60–33.90)
 37.5
 N/A
 N/A
 37.25
Nipah virus RNA in urine underneath roost
 Pos
 Pos
 Pos
 Neg
 N/A
 Pos
Distance from households to bat roosts, m, median (IQR)
 609 
(367–1,200)
 770 
(400–1,970)
 583
(499–812)
 325 
(152–1,040)
 359 
(162–520)
 1,065 
(224–1,190)
Months from outbreak to sampling animals (sampling date)
 9 mo 
(2013 Oct)
 8 mo 
(2013 Nov)
 4 mo 
(2014 May)
 6 mo 
(2014 Jul)
 5 mo 
(2015 Jun)
 8 mo 
(2015 Sep)
Domestic animals sampled and tested, no. (%)
Cattle 0/43 0/47 0/50 0/50 1/45 (2) 2/39 (5) 3/274 (1)
Goat 0/49 0/51 0/50 0/50 0/69 0/61 0/330
Total
 0/92
 0/98
 0/100
 0/100
 1/114 (1)
 2/100 (2)
 3/604 (1)
Peridomestic animals sampled and tested, no. (%)
Dog 1/36 (3) 0/28 1/27 (4) 1/35 (3) 0/44 2/19 (11) 5/189 (3)
Cat 0/14 1/22 (5) 3/15 (20) 0/8 0/6 0/20 4/85 (5)
Rat 0/28 0/23 0/36 0/17 0/17 0/21 0/142
House shrew 0/12 0/25 0/13 0/33 0/23 0/30 0/136
Total 1/90 (1) 1/98 (1) 4/91 (4) 1/93 (1) 0/90 2/90 (2) 9/552 (2)

*Ct, cycle threshold; IQR, interquartile range; NA, data not available; neg, negative; pos, positive.

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