Table 1. Demographic and clinical features of outbreak and sporadic case-patients with encephalitis caused by Nipah virus infection, Faridpur, Bangladesh, 2010*.
| Feature |
First-generation outbreak, n = 4 |
Second-generation outbreak, n = 4 |
Sporadic, n = 8 |
All, n = 16 |
| Median age, y (range) | 28 (10–45) | 55 (32–60) | 23 (4–45) | 35 (4–60) |
| Male sex |
1 (25) |
3 (75) |
5 (63) |
9 (56) |
| Clinical features | ||||
| Fever | 4 (100) | 4 (100) | 8 (100) | 16 (100) |
| Altered mental status | 4 (100) | 3 (75) | 8 (100) | 15 (94) |
| Unconscious | 4 (100) | 2 (50) | 8 (100) | 14 (88) |
| Difficulty breathing | 2 (50) | 3 (75) | 7 (88) | 12 (75) |
| Headache | 4 (100) | 2 (50) | 4 (50) | 10 (63) |
| Vomiting | 4 (100) | 1 (25) | 3 (38) | 8 (50) |
| Convulsion |
3 (75) |
1 (25) |
3 (38) |
7 (44) |
| Case-fatality rate | 4 (100) | 3 (75) | 7 (88) | 14 (88) |
| Median days (range) from onset of illness to death | 7 (4–8) | 6 (3–7) | 4 (4–17) | 5 (3–17)† |
*Values are no. (%) case-patients except as indicated. †n = 14, all of whom died.