Table 2. Proportion of surfaces contaminated with Nipah virus RNA associated with 6 laboratory-confirmed Nipah cases in 3 surveillance hospitals, Bangladesh, December 2013–April 2014*.

Surface type	No. surface samples collected	No. (%) positive
Walls beside patient bed	4	0
Bed rails	4	1 (25)
Bed sheet	6	3 (50)
Clinical record file	6	0
Multipurpose towel	5	4 (80)

*Two patients were on the floor and had no bed rail surface; 2 patients did not have an adjacent wall; 1 patient did not have a towel sample.