Nipah virus..a more brutal virus after Corona threatens humanity

The Nipah virus worries many after a special report published by the British newspaper “The Guardian” warned of the outbreak of the Nipah virus in China, with a mortality rate of 75%, and that it would cause a future global pandemic that would be more dangerous than the Corona epidemic.

"Nipah virus is another emerging infectious disease of great concern," said Jayasri Iyer, executive director of the European Medical Access Foundation. "A Nipah pandemic could break out at any moment, it could be the next global pandemic with drug-resistant infections."

severe respiratory problems

According to the report it can cause Nipah has severe respiratory problems, as well as inflammation and swelling of the brain, and its mortality rate ranges from 40% to 75%, and its source is fruit bats. An outbreak of the disease in Bangladesh and India has been associated with drinking date palm juice.

Nipah is one of the 10 infectious diseases identified by the World Health Organization as the greatest threat to public health, especially in light of the unwillingness of major global pharmaceutical companies to tackle it.

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The virus is also one of the infectious agents that have been discovered in recent years, as it was found in 1999 during an outbreak in Malaysia and infected the nervous and respiratory systems of 265 people, of whom 115 died. Fruit bats are a type of fox bat, the natural carrier of the Nipah virus.