India has put more than 300 people under surveillance after a 23-year-old man was diagnosed with the Nipah virus, a rare and often deadly disease.
Authorities said they have identified 311 people who may have come in contact with the man.
All of them are under observation and have been told not to leave their homes. The disease has resurfaced, a year after an outbreak killed 17 people.
Nipah is a Zoonotic virus, meaning it is transmitted from animals to humans and has a death rate of 40% to 75% for the infected.
