State media says no cases of Nipah virus infection have been detected in China

State media says no cases of Nipah virus infection have been detected in ChinaState media says no cases of Nipah virus infection have been detected in China
Color transmission electron micrograph of mature extracellular Nipah virus particles (purple) near the periphery of infected VERO cells (brown). Color-corrected image taken at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland. (NIAID)

No Nipah virus infections have been detected in China, but there is a risk of imported cases, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Tuesday, citing disease control authorities.

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

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