What is the Nipah virus and why is it more deadly than COVID? A virus expert explains.

Officials in India are racing to contain a virus outbreak that has claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy and is deadlier than COVID-19 — the Nipah virus.

We got a new virus, I guess we have entered the era of none ending viruses and India seems to be the epicenter of all this new versions.

CBS News reports the boy was taken to the hospital last week in the southern Kerala state with a high-grade fever and suspected brain inflammation. After blood tests, he was diagnosed with the Nipah virus and died Sunday.

This new virus infect the brain causing inflammation very different from covid that attacks the lungs.

The virus is not new, is been tracked before in India but now is back again and soo far 188 people has been isolated from been in contact with the child.

"This is one of those viruses we really need to pay attention to," John Lednicky, a research professor at the University of Florida's Environmental and Global Health department, told USA TODAY.

Soo how many will bet that this one comes to the US.

Soo per article this virus is transmitted between animals to humans and human to humans, is in the family of zonotic virus.

The Nipah virus is not related to COVID-19, but may have the same originating source — bats.

The host of the virus is fruit bats, also known as flying foxes because of their large size.

Lednicky said pigs are highly susceptible to the virus and can come in contact with it through fruit material the bats have been consuming.

It is me or seem that bats has been blamed for all this new viruses in today modern world

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a reply to: marg6043

Right, Nipah is not new. One Link

It's been around for quite awhile now. Not good whenever or wherever there's an outbreak.

S + F Nipah is my favorite virus. The movie Contagion is based on an airborne Nipah virus. Nasty nasty virus, we are very lucky it doesn’t spread like corona or the flu. It mostly bunds neurological tissue but it’s shed in the airways so we don’t want it in pigs or people because it’s an RNA virus. Its high rate of mutation could be a problem with stable spread through our population. Those pesky bats are always causing problems and they more than likely have some variants or strains that do have airborne transmission. They just haven’t jumped yet.

"There's no good treatment for it," Lednicky said. "They put you in the hospital, but there's really nothing much else they can do for you."

WHO reports that 40% to 75% of Nipah cases are fatal compared to COVID-19 fatality rate of around 2%.

Better not come to this continent- this one is a bad one.

This is not too bad. It is very close to the rabies virus and a modification to rabies vaccines will provide nipah protection. It is much more understood and close to things we have dealt with in the past than the lab leak China Virus. News is fear mongering again.

Media seems to have forgotten about the fact they created a vaccine for it in Philadelphia a couple years ago. That vaccine is most likely safer than the vaccines people are currently taking for COVID since this is based on existing rabies vaccines we have decades of data for.
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Does Lysol kill it? 🚨

a reply to: xuenchen

I am sure that if a first case is found in the US thanks to the open borders, lysol will clam they can kill it, just sprayed all over the body.

a reply to: marg6043

Don’t forget your nose, you’ll need to get it nice and up there. Make sure you cover the entire airway and face with Lysol too. If it burns that’s good, it means it’s working and killing the bad bugs.

a reply to: marg6043

COVID-19 was from a novel virus. No-one had any antibodies for it, and it is also far more infectious than Nipah. With a novel virus, the usual immune responses that we see as sickness, may not be present at all in the early stages of an infection. This provides a vast base from which an infection grows to become a disastrous pandemic, well before many people show adverse reactions.

People do have antibodies for Nipah, as well, and so it won't affect as many people because of historically attained immune response.

Similarly, a virus that is deadly on a case by case basis, but affects fewer people, and spreads slower, will, overall, kill fewer than a virus that is less deadly on a case by case basis, but affects far more people, and exponentially so.

originally posted by: marg6043

Officials in India are racing to contain a virus outbreak that has claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy and is deadlier than COVID-19 — the Nipah virus.

We got a new virus, I guess we have entered the era of none ending viruses and India seems to be the epicenter of all this new versions.

CBS News reports the boy was taken to the hospital last week in the southern Kerala state with a high-grade fever and suspected brain inflammation. After blood tests, he was diagnosed with the Nipah virus and died Sunday.

This new virus infect the brain causing inflammation very different from covid that attacks the lungs.

The virus is not new, is been tracked before in India but now is back again and soo far 188 people has been isolated from been in contact with the child.

"This is one of those viruses we really need to pay attention to," John Lednicky, a research professor at the University of Florida's Environmental and Global Health department, told USA TODAY.

Soo how many will bet that this one comes to the US.

Soo per article this virus is transmitted between animals to humans and human to humans, is in the family of zonotic virus.

The Nipah virus is not related to COVID-19, but may have the same originating source — bats.

The host of the virus is fruit bats, also known as flying foxes because of their large size.

Lednicky said pigs are highly susceptible to the virus and can come in contact with it through fruit material the bats have been consuming.

It is me or seem that bats has been blamed for all this new viruses in today modern world

www.msn.com...

Bats.
It had to be bats.
Bats, the tell tale signature that this has been re-engineered.

Here come all of the things they will use to cover up illnesses caused by the clot shots.