Brain-swelling virus kills boy, 12, amid fear bug may trigger 'Big One' pandemic

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Brain-swelling virus kills boy amid fear bug may trigger 'Big One' pandemic

: "We had a meeting with the ministers from the district along with concerned officials about the Nipah virus. A team will be formed to handle the situation."

"The friends he played within his locality, his cousins and others, the health department had completed the identification and tracing of all these contacts." Nipah also has an exceptional high rate of mutation and there fears a strain more well adapted to human infections could spread rapidly across the the well interconnected countries of southern Asia.

as populations expand and habitats get pushed back is considered to be a prime driver of new diseases.Nipah is one of the viruses that could absolutely be the cause of a new pandemicDr Rebecca Dutch, chair of the University of Kentucky's department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and a world a leader in the study of viruses, previously told us that although there are no current Nipah outbreaks in the world, they occur periodically and it is “extremely likely” we will see more.

“The incubation period for Nipah can be quite long, and it can be unclear if transmission can occur during this time.”

 

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Fuking hell,I'm sure government have a lot to do with this,I don't believe this bs

The best way to try to help stopping a new pandemic is to stop eating animals. Most of these diseases are spread from bats to farmed animals and then to humans.

No thanks

Another pandemic? There is something wrong with the world!

give it a rest you fearmongering arse badgers

BREAKING: Stop all media from publishing for 30 days, and all the Worlds problems will be resolved.

UK under fresh pandemic scare to the world... DrTedros UnitedKingdom England UNGeneva UN_News_Centre AP Reuters PA BorisJohnson WHOEMRO WHO WHO_Europe

Instead of nuclear weapons and space programs,countries need to spend money on education,keep away from wild animals

Our heart goes out to the family of this young boy. Just like this and many other tragedies that take place everyday on this earth, the question of why suffering begs an answer.

3 years ago...

Luckily china is one of their closest neighbors!

Here we go again! 😂 look this propaganda machine in UK TV news, papers only showing bad, scary news! In reality life on ground people don’t give 💩 any more! So stop this! Fake news!

YES! You've found something else to try and terrify us with.

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