Malappuram: Health Minister Veena George on Sunday confirmed that the antibody of the Nipah virus was detected in the bat samples collected from Pandikkad in Malappuram, where a case was reported.
"The antibody's presence was detected in a sample collected within a 5-km radius. Antibodies were found in six of the 27 samples collected from fruit bats," she said.
The test results of all those in the contact list have been negative so far. A total of 472 people were on the contact list, of whom 261 completed 21 days of isolation and were removed from the list. It was on July 21 that a 14-year-old boy from Malappuram succumbed to the virus while under treatment for the disease at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.
