<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A toddler died of the deadly Nipah virus at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital on Monday morning.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>The 7-year-old boy, Md. Swad, was the son of Sanowar Ali of Ishwardi upazila in Pabna.</div><div><br></div><div>Swad died while receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of the hospital.</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, the ICU in-charge at the hospital, said that the boy had consumed raw date juice - practically the only mode of transmission of the virus.</div><div><br></div><div>According to icddr,b in Bangladesh, Nipah virus is usually acquired through consumption of date palm sap contaminated with bat saliva or urine.</div><div><br></div><div>With Swad, two Nipah virus-infected patients have died at the same hospital already this year. The IEDCR recorded the other death on January 3.</div><div><br></div><div>A 35-year-old woman died in the district hospital after she drank date juice. The country recorded three deaths from the virus in 2022. Souce: UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>