Nipah virus claims another life after nurse in India spends weeks in coma

The virus spreads through fruit bats (Picture: AFP)

One of the two people infected with Nipah virus in India has died.

An unnamed nurse, 25, became infected with the rare, brain-damaging virus in late December after coming into contact with infected date sap.

While her colleague, who was also sickened with Nipah, was discharged last month, she fell into a weeks-long coma and died Thursday.

Her cause of death was a lung infection and cardiac arrest – when the heart suddenly stops beating ...