Summary:
So, persons being exposed to virus are more likely to fall ill within shorter period of incubation,’’ officials said. The deaths at Belechuapara were intra-familial involving person to person transmission. Frugivorous bats are natural hosts of this virus,” an official associated with disease investigation in animals said. It is closely associated with various habits of the index patient like what he would have eaten, places he would have frequented, persons he would have closely mingled with and so on. It also applies for bats since the well was inhabited by insectivorous bats..