Other viruses - Nipah

[Dave2002]

Covid-19 is not the only virus which threatens humans. There are others - such as Nipah - see https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...-next-pandemic

[Anastasius]

Covid-19 is not the only virus which threatens humans. There are others - such as Nipah - see https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...-next-pandemic

Aren't you a little ray of sunshine . As if we haven't got enough on our plates.

[Dave2002]

Aren't you a little ray of sunshine . As if we haven't got enough on our plates.

Always willing to oblige!

True - Nipah doesn't sound good, but OTOH it's good that people are studying diseases like that. There seems to be a lot more going on behind the scenes than many of us ever imagined, and in some places that we perhaps didn't imagine.

I'd be interested to know whether a long incubation period - as in Nipah - really is such bad news. It won't be good for the people who catch it, but it might (or not) prevent it spreading very fast. There must be models of that kind of disease.

However at first glance it does look really bad. Whole communities could be wiped out seemingly spontaneously - months after being infected.

[Anastasius]

Always willing to oblige!

True - Nipah doesn't sound good, but OTOH it's good that people are studying diseases like that. There seems to be a lot more going on behind the scenes than many of us ever imagined, and in some places that we perhaps didn't imagine.

I'd be interested to know whether a long incubation period - as in Nipah - really is such bad news. It won't be good for the people who catch it, but it might (or not) prevent it spreading very fast. There must be models of that kind of disease.

However at first glance it does look really bad. Whole communities could be wiped out seemingly spontaneously - months after being infected.

My take was that although it had a long incubation period, one was still spewing out virus to infect others.