New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Deadly Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal has sent shock waves around the world. Due to the Nipah scare and 2 confirmed cases, airports across parts of Asia have reinstated Covid-style health checks amid no approved vaccine or medicine to treat it. However, Chinese researchers seem to have found a possible cure to the disease, which has a fatality rate of up to 75 per cent.

According to researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the effectiveness of an oral antiviral drug named "VV116" was tested on hamsters. This drug, which was originally developed to treat Covid-19, gave positive results as two-thirds of infected hamsters survived after the administration of this dose.

"This finding is the first to demon...