Nipah patient dies inside hospital in India's West Bengal

NEW DELHI, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- A 25-year-old nurse infected with the Nipah virus and undergoing treatment inside a hospital died Thursday, officials said.

According to health officials, the nurse died of cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Barasat, North 24-Parganas district, about 26 km north of Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal.

The woman was one of two health workers in the state who tested positive for Nipah earlier this year. The other, a man, has recovered and was discharged from the hospital.

Typically, the human infection with Nipah presents as an encephalitic syndrome marked by fever, headache, drowsiness, disorientation, mental confusion and coma, which can potentially lead to death.