AT least 38 people – most of them kids – have died since June 2024 in the worst outbreak of Chandipura virus India has seen in over two decades years.
The little-known disease, which has only ever made the jump from insects to humans in India, can start wreaking havoc in the body just six hours after the person has been infected.
GettySymptoms of the Chandipura virus can start emerging just six hours after infection[/caption]The virus is part of the same family of diseases that cause Rabies...