Thiruvananthapuram, June 12 -- Nipah virus has resurfaced in Kerala with a 43-year-old man from Feroke in Kozhikode district testing positive for the infection, state health minister K Muraleedharan said on Thursday. This is the first case of the infection caused by the zoonotic virus in the state this year.

Health officials in the state raised an alert after a preliminary PCR test conducted at the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital (MCH) late Wednesday indicated the presence of the virus. Fluid samples of the patient, sent for testing at the National Institute for Virology in Pune, also came back positive for the virus on Thursday.

"The man is currently on ventilator support at the Kozhikode Government MCH. All possible trea...