A nurse infected with the Nipah virus in West Bengal died of cardiac arrest on Thursday, the health ministry said.
The nurse was taken off ventilator support at the end of January. (Reuters/File Photo)According to the ministry, one of the two Nipah positive cases reported from West Bengal has died. The deceased nurse was critically ill and under intensive care in Barasa, West Bengal.
“Of the two Nipah positive cases reported from West Bengal on January 11, 2026, a nurse who was critically ill and under intensive care died today due to cardiac arrest at the hospital where she was undergoing treatment,” the Union Health Ministry said.
Nurse recovered, ventilator support discontinued The nurse was taken off ventilator support in late January, a PTI news agency report said, adding that she had recovered from the virus.
“He died of cardiac arrest this afternoon. Though he had recovered from Nipah infection, he was suffering from multiple complications,” an official told PTI.
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The woman was in a coma for a long time, which affected her immune system. He later developed an infection in his lungs.
According to the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) report, two confirmed cases of Nipah virus have occurred in West Bengal since December. Another person, a male nurse, has recovered from the disease, PTI reported.
Contacts linked to confirmed cases tested negativeThe ministry, in a statement earlier, said that after two cases of Nipah virus were confirmed in West Bengal, the Centre, in close coordination with the state government, has taken immediate and comprehensive public health measures following established protocols.
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“A total of 196 contacts linked to confirmed cases have been identified, identified, monitored and tested,” the ministry said, adding that all those identified were asymptomatic and tested negative for the disease.
The ministry, which warned against speculative and inaccurate statistics about the Nipah virus disease, said increased surveillance, lab tests and field investigations have helped control the virus, PTI reported.
