Nipah Virus potential

[jimnyc]

This is all we need, another pandemic on top of a pandemic. And a worse one at that.

Let's hope they are being extra extra careful and the chances are slim.

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Experts Say Nipah Virus Has Potential To Be Another Pandemic — With A Higher Death Toll

Earlier this month, a twelve-year-old boy in Kerala’s Kozhikode district in India died from the Nipah virus, a virus that most people probably never heard of. A virus that, according to experts, has the potential to become another global pandemic with a significantly higher death toll.

Approximately 70 percent of people who are infected with the Nipah virus die, says Dr. Stephen Luby, a professor of infectious disease at Stanford University. When the virus first appeared in Malaysia in 1999, it killed more than 100 of the approximately 300 people that had been infected. When it emerged in Kerala in 2018, only two of the nineteen people who’d contracted Nipah survived.

Often even survivors are left to suffer. Many are left with long-term consequences, including “persistent convulsions and personality changes,” according to the CDC.

For those reasons and others, the World Health Organization declared Nipah a “virus of concern” and experts are urging more research and attention.

Nipah Virus Is A Zoonotic Virus

Similar to coronavirus, Nipah is a zoonotic virus, which means it can spread between animals and people. Generally, transmission happens when a person consumes contaminated food or comes into direct contact with an infected animal. Fruit bats “are the natural carriers of Nipah.” Once Nipah spreads from an animal to a person, that person can go on to infect other humans.

Though it’s still uncertain, experts believe contaminated food caused this current outbreak.

“One plausible theory is that those who’ve been infected [in Kerala] ate food or fruit contaminated with bat saliva or excreta,” Dr. Thekkumkara Surendran Anish, associate professor of community medicine at the Government Medical College in Thiruvananthapuram told NPR.

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[fj1200]

I don't think this one goes anywhere. Ebola-ish.

[icansayit]

Do you remember when Sleepy started telling everybody the Corona Virus is getting under control because nearly 280 million Americans have had their shots?

If you do. Remember how that became a signal for the C.D.C. and W.H.O. to instantly start looking for MORE REASONS (at the request of the SOCIALIST Dems) to find MORE reasons to KEEP All of America locked up, and in Quarantine????

They have to maintain total control over all of us, or their SOCIALIST idea's will fall on their faces.

The DEMS are so Pissed at W.Va. Manchin for not going along with their 3.5Trillion PORK package. They will do anything to prevent Americans from ever Using the Constitution again.