No Nipah virus cases detected in China, state media says

January 28, 2026 - 2:17 PM
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Colorized transmission electron micrograph of a mature extracellular Nipah Virus particle (purple) near the periphery of an infected VERO cell (brown). Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (NIAID)

 No Nipah virus infections have been detected in China, but there are risks of imported cases, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday, citing the disease control authority.

—Reporting by Qiaoyi Li, Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo; Editing by Andrew Heavens