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The southern Indian state of Kerala is quickly ramping up efforts to stop a potential outbreak of the virus, at the same time dealing with Covid. Kerala is on high alert after the year-old boy died on Sunday, spurring health officials to start contact-tracing and isolating hundreds of people who came into contact with the boy.

The state health minister Veena George said this was a great relief, as Indian authorities have insisted there is no need for panic. Meanwhile, Kerala is seeing around 20, Covid cases per day out of India's daily total of 31, It was first discovered in , in Malaysia, Singapore, when deaths occurred out of cases.

The virus is named after a place in Port Dickson, Malaysia, where the outbreak was traced back to a pig farm. Sign in. All Football. Most read in Health. Doctors tested his blood for all sorts of infections, from tularemia and Q fever to fungal infections such as aspergillosis. The medical team finally decided to check for another new mystery virus called Heartland virus , another tickborne virus that had only turned up in Erin Staples. It wasn't anything that had been seen before. Staples thinks the new virus may have occasionally infected people, but they never knew what they had.

Scientists only recently have possessed the tools and facilities needed to make this kind of identification. When the weather warms up, scientists will visit the area looking for ticks, mosquitoes and perhaps animals that might be carrying the virus.