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Indian state of Kerala hailed as leader in fight against epidemics

By France24
19 October 2023   |   10:50 am
Nurses wearing hazmat suits, schools and stores closed and towns under lockdown: this familiar scenario has just played out again in the state of Kerala, in southern India. The cause is not a new wave of Covid, but the Nipah virus: the third such outbreak to hit the state in five years.

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