"Nipah" Virus Spreading in India

[Green Dot]

One of its major symptoms is supposedly brain inflammation.

Authorities race to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India

The virus is far deadlier than COVID-19, and it last claimed Indian lives in 2018, killing 17 of the 18 people who caught it from a contaminated family well.

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[Perry Staltic]

I wish they'd said which village this was in. I suspect ground water pollution.

 

[Lollipop2]

I wish they'd said which village this was in. I suspect ground water pollution.

Good thought. In general India suffers from horrible pollution from innumerable sources - ie. lack of trash collection leaving huge trash piles in city streets, public defamation on beaches etc etc.

 

[theordinarydude]

I wish they'd said which village this was in. I suspect ground water pollution.

So it’s not an infectious virus ?

 

[Perry Staltic]

So it’s not an infectious virus ?

In this particular case I don't know, but they are always trying to blame diseases caused by environmental toxins on viruses (or prions). That's why I want to know what village that boy lived in because a Coca Cola plant badly polluted the groundwater in that same Indian state. Mad cow disease was almost certainly caused by manganese poisoning, but they blame it on hypothetical infectious prions.

 

[Peatful]

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