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JAMSHEDPUR: The Steel City 's popular bat park, located inside Jubilee Park , has come under surveillance of the district health department in the wake of Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala. Spread across one acre, the bat park is a seven decades old destination. The World Health Organization (WHO) has named Nipah as one of the eight priority diseases that could cause a global epidemic, alongside Ebola and Zika. The advisory also asked visitors not to come close to trees densely populated with fruit bats and take adequate safety measures while enjoying a boat ride in the lake. The rare virus spread by fruit bats, which can cause flu-like symptoms and brain damage, has killed 10 people in Kerala; at least nine more are being treated.More than 2,500 people visit the park to watch fruit bats hanging from the trees at the island of the Jayanti Sarovar everyday..