該病於1998年在馬來西亞爆發,由馬來亞大學醫學院的研究人員首次發現。馬來西亞大多數確診患者在馬來亞大學醫學中心接受了診治。尼帕病毒於1999年被分離出並得到確認。[2][12]該病得名於馬來西亞雙溪立百新村(馬來語:Kampung Sungai Nipah)。由於豬也可能受到感染,馬來西亞當局在1999年撲殺了數百萬隻豬,以阻止疾病的傳播,這一措施被證明是有效的。
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Sharma, V; Kaushik, S; Kumar, R; Yadav, JP; Kaushik, S. Emerging trends of Nipah virus: A review.. Reviews in Medical Virology. January 2019, 29 (1): e2010. PMID 30251294. doi:10.1002/rmv.2010.
Sharma, V; Kaushik, S; Kumar, R; Yadav, JP; Kaushik, S. Emerging trends of Nipah virus: A review.. Reviews in Medical Virology. January 2019, 29 (1): e2010. PMID 30251294. doi:10.1002/rmv.2010.
Lessons from the Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia(PDF). The Malaysian Journal of Pathology (Department of Pathology, University of Malaya and National Public Health Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, Malaysia). 2007, 29 (2). (原始內容(PDF)存檔於30 August 2019).
Lessons from the Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia(PDF). The Malaysian Journal of Pathology (Department of Pathology, University of Malaya and National Public Health Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, Malaysia). 2007, 29 (2). (原始內容(PDF)存檔於30 August 2019).