Health authorities in India’s Kerala state have issued an alert after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus.
According to the state’s health minister, an additional 60 people have been identified as being in the high-risk category of having the disease.
The Nipah virus infection is a “zoonotic illness” transmitted from animals like pigs and fruit bats to humans, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO has described the virus as a priority pathogen because of its potential to trigger an epidemic.
Sooo… We going for another round or…?
Human to human infection has not happened. People need to stop drinking date palm juice covered in bat shit.
We just need to invent synthetic bat shit and problem solved.
Also don’t do large, dense farming
Statistically it’s 1 per century
Good point, but I suppose we have planes and such now allowing for much faster cross-country transmission?
