From China’s ‘gold fever’ sparking scandal to a tourist drought, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

The virus has a fatality rate ranging from 40 per cent to 75 per cent, according to health experts. There is currently no approved vaccine or cure, making early containment and monitoring critical.

VV116 acts as a "prodrug" that suppresses viral replication. It essentially "jams" the machinery (RNA) the virus needs to replicate, effectively stopping the infection's lifecycle. Testing confirmed the drug's effectiveness against both the Malaysian (NiV-M) and the more virulent Bangladeshi (NiV-B) genotypes.

No Nipah virus cases had been detected in China as of Tuesday and the probability of infections in China remains low, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration said in the wake of a recent outbreak in neighboring India.

China's newly revised Frontier Health and Quarantine Law, which was implemented last year, included the Nipah virus in its monitoring protocols. Customs authorities conduct screenings for incoming travelers from affected areas, and any suspected cases must be immediately isolated and referred to designated medical institutions.

The new ban is due to Bluetongue Virus (BTV), cases of which have been detected in four herds in County Wexford.

China has suspended imports of Irish beef due to the bluetongue virus outbreak in a cattle herd in Wexford last week. The move comes just over two weeks after China agreed to lift a previous ban on Irish beef that had been in place for more than a year.

The Trump administration this week sent out an alert about the Nipah virus after two cases were confirmed in West Bengal, India