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Teen who died of Nipah in Kerala had local fruit from neighbourhood where fruit bats thrive
A day after a 14-year-old boy in Malappuram succumbed to the Nipah virus, Kerala health department Monday confirmed that he had consumed hog plum fruit from his neighbourhood, where the presence of fruit bats, known as reservoir of the zoonotic virus, was …