Transmission of Nipah Virus — 14 Years of Investigations in Bangladesh

The risk of infection increased with increased duration of exposure of Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hop- kins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the contacts (adjusted odds ratio for exposure of >48 hours vs. [...] A total of 35 of the 2494 Risk Factors Associated with persons who came in contact with a case patient the Reproduction Number (1.4%) probably acquired Nipah virus through In a univariable analysis, the reproduction num- person-to-person transmission. [...] Panel B shows the distribution of Nipah virus transmission trees according to the size of the tree, and Panel C shows the distribution of the number of secondary cases per Nipah virus case. [...] We also found that the odds of infection depended on the case patient number of secondary infections was associated to whom the contact was exposed (P<0.001) and with the age of the patients infected with Nipah not on the spillover event (P = 1.00). [...] In Panel A, the horizontal line represents the median, the top and bottom of the boxes represent the quartiles, and the I bars represent the range excluding outliers.