Nipah is a dangerous epidemic that is more deadly than Corona
Concerns were raised recently about a possible outbreak of a deadly virus known as "Nipah", at a time when the world is still confused as it combats the Corona epidemic that has killed 2.2 million people. A report issued in the Netherlands recently warned that the world is not prepared to deal with an outbreak of a new virus, despite the lessons that we are supposed to have learned from "Covid 19". The executive director of "Access to Medicine", a non-profit organization active in the field of health, said that it is likely that "Nipah" is the next epidemic in our world. Jayasri Iyer indicated that the "Nipah" virus may spread in China, and its lethality may reach more than 75 percent, which means that the next epidemic may be much worse than the Corona virus. The health activist described the Nipah virus as an infectious disease that is developing and a source of great concern to the world, and added that it may explode at any moment, as for the risk that the next epidemic may be an anti-drug infection. The "Nipah" virus can cause severe respiratory problems, in addition to inflammation and swelling of the brain, while the death rate from the disease ranges between 40 and 75 percent. Symptoms of the virus include muscle pain, as well as feeling dizzy, and the patient may go into a coma within 24 to 48 hours. Scientists expect that the incubation period for the virus will be between 4 and 14 days, but some reports have recorded a longer incubation period in some cases, up to 45 days. And if the injured man was able to recover, he would fully recover, but some recovered people reported far-reaching effects that accompanied their health. Currently, data indicates that 20 percent of recovered patients suffer from chronic neurological consequences, such as epileptic seizures and even personality changes. On the other hand, the World Health Organization says that only a limited percentage of those who recovered suffer from encephalitis after making a full recovery. Fruit bats are a natural incubator for this virus, while previous reports have attributed the emerging corona virus to the bat known as "the horseshoe bat." Nipah is one of the 10 infectious diseases included by the World Health Organization in the list of 16 diseases that pose the greatest threat to human health. The World Health Organization website provides detailed information about this virus, which we rarely heard of before, but it has become arousing increasing curiosity. The organization explains that this virus is able to pass from animals to humans, and it has set an example with pigs and bats. She added that this dangerous infection is also transmitted through contaminated food, as it is transmitted from one person to another, in the absence of any vaccine or medicine against this disease at the present time. This virus has only spread in a limited way in Asia so far, but its danger lies in causing severe symptoms and causing the death of most carriers of the infection, unlike the less deadly Corona virus. This virus was first identified in 1999 in pig farms in Malaysia, and no outbreak of the disease has been detected in this Asian country since then. The virus was detected in Bangladesh in 2001, and the matter continued to recur almost annually in these countries, and it was also diagnosed in eastern India. But the risks are not limited to this Asian region. Rather, they exist in many countries, because the virus is present in bats?
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