India is battling an outbreak of Nipah Virus in its eastern state of West Bengal that has seen five people confirmed infected and nearly 100 people placed in quarantine. The outbreak is reported to have begun in a private hospital in the city of Barasat, with three of the patients being medical professionals treating patients in the facility. Patients have been transferred to an infectious diseases hospital in the east of the state capital of Kolkata . Nipah ( Henipavirus nipahense )—which was