Nipah病毒(Nipah Virus,Ni V)是近年来新出现的一种副粘病毒,可引起人和动物急性中枢神经系统病变。Ni V感染于1998～1999年在马来西亚和新加坡首次爆发,最近在孟加拉国、泰国和印度也被发现。在人类,Ni V引起热性脑炎并伴发呼吸系统症状,死亡率高。Ni V的储存宿主被认为是果蝠 Nipah virus (Ni V) is a newly emerged paramyxovirus in recent years that causes acute central nervous system diseases in humans and animals. Ni V infections erupted for the first time in Malaysia and Singapore between 1998 and 1999 and recently in Bangladesh, Thailand and India. In humans, Ni V causes thermal encephalitis with respiratory symptoms and high mortality. Ni V storage host is considered a fruit bat