The ministry claims that one of the two Nipah-positive individuals from West Bengal that were reported has died. The nurse who passed away was in Barasat, West Bengal, receiving vital medical care.
“One of the nurses who was critically ill and receiving intensive medical care died today from cardiac arrest in the hospital where she was receiving treatment, out of the two Nipah positive cases reported from West Bengal on January 11, 2026,” the union health ministry stated.
The PTI news agency said that the nurse had recovered from the infection and was removed from ventilator support at the end of January. This afternoon, she passed away due to cardiac arrest. She was dealing with other issues even though she had recovered from the Nipah illness, an official told PTI. The woman’s immunity was impacted by her protracted coma.
Later on, she got a lung infection. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announces that since December, there have been two confirmed cases of the Nipah virus in West Bengal. According to PTI, the other, a male nurse, was cured of the illness.
The ministry had stated in a statement that the Center, working closely with the state government, had taken swift and thorough public health measures in accordance with established protocols following the confirmation of two Nipah virus cases in West Bengal. According to the ministry, “196 contacts associated with the confirmed cases have been identified, traced, monitored, and tested.”
All of the contacts who were traced were asymptomatic and had negative disease test results. The ministry said that improved surveillance, laboratory testing, and field investigations had helped contain the virus, according to PTI, after warning against erroneous and speculative statistics regarding Nipah Virus Disease.
