Posted on 05/28/2018 10:09:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The disease, which kills up to 75% of those infected, starts with flu-like symptoms and causes a brain-swelling condition known as encephalitis.
The virus has not yet spread beyond two areas in south India, according to officials, but they have issued a series of warnings to people living in the stricken towns where more than 200 people are being treated in hospitals. Over 25 people are under strict observation and another three are in a critical condition.
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There is no vaccine for nipah, which is listed alongside ebola and zika as one of eight priority diseases by the World Health Organisation, who believe it could cause a global epidemic.
No treatment is available beyond supportive care to make patients suffering from high fever, vomiting and convulsion feel comfortable. While officials believe this outbreak began with someone infected by a fruit bat, the ministry official said every subsequent infection came from human-to-human contact, sometimes passing to relatives or medical workers caring for the sick.
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So if you catch it, you can still come back in through Tijuana, right? That’s gotta still be ok. So no big deal. It’s not like we have borders. That would be racist.
Infection with Nipah virus is associated with encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). After exposure and an incubation period of 5 to 14 days,illness presents with 3-14 days of fever and headache, followed by drowsiness, disorientation and mental confusion. These signs and symptoms can progress to coma within 24-48 hours. Some patients have a respiratory illness during the early part of their infections, and half of the patients showing severe neurological signs showed also pulmonary signs.
During the Nipah virus disease outbreak in 1998-99, 265 patients were infected with the virus. About 40% of those patients who entered hospitals with serious nervous disease died from the illness. Long-term sequelae following Nipah virus infection have been noted, including persistent convulsions and personality changes. Latent infections with subsequent reactivation of Nipah virus and death have also been reported months and even years after exposure.
What the? Death resulting YEARS after exposure?
C'mon FReepers, we can do something with this!
I saw that. This is a direct threat to the U.S. strategic bacon reserve.
Odd that it’s happening in a shitzenhole.
We spent a few weeks two years ago roaming around southern India. Wow, the things we saw: beautiful temples, historic
forts, interesting cities and VERY friendly people. Also, we saw sights shocking to one used-to our society and its culture. I am glad we went then and survived intact. Don’t let a killer disease keep you away.
Mass media promoting paranoia through exaggeration again! This is a form of fame news.
“brain-swelling condition known as encephalitis”
When you want to look smart, say it in latin.
I'd caution anyone to be careful with CDC data, at times it can be "cooked". The Obama CDC covered up the cause of the Cholera epidemic in Haiti, and even queered the maps showing the spread of the disease. It turns out that the origin of that outbreak was a cesspool used by turd world Nepalese UN "peace keepers".
Hmmm... nobama? Killary?
Continuing...
Latent infections with subsequent reactivation of Nipah virus and death have also been reported months and even years after exposure.
At least there's hope.
Those words brought me an overpowering sense of calm and comfort.
And hunger.
Maybe we should eradicate all flying mammals, just to be safe?
“So this is the next in a long line of “latest and greatest” pandemics that are going to kill us off.”
It is one of the World Health Organization’s top threats for monitoring, for pandemic potential (like influenza, ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV, SARS, cholera, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS).
It is one of the rare ones, but one which has the characteristics to be really bad (human to human transmission, incubation period long enough for wide travel, highly fatal).
Soros will be buying the villagers plane tickets to the US.
I’m not doubting you it’s just that it seems there is a new pandemic scare at least once a year. Where I live people are always worried about West Nile virus. West Nile is not a pandemic but the outbreak scares get old.
I would love to go to India. Had some Indian history in college and enjoyed it. Maybe one of these days...
Thanks for the encouragement.
Wasn’t India where hillary kept falling down the stairs?
Why was she there, anyway? Hiding stolen money in The Bank of India?
Almost all diseases trumpeted as not survivable, or barely so, are cured by antibiotics, and IV fluids in the US. Clean streets, sewage treatment and the rarity of vermin also is what stops us from getting sick. Now that the borders are open without wellness checks, the homeless are defecating on the sidewalks, and rats are making a huge comeback, all bets are off for the future.
My buddy who drives a Train through Seattle/Tacoma area, tells me of herds of rats on the tracks to where grown men will not get off to perform their jobs. They are literally nose to nose and tail to tail for close to a mile after dark near the waterfronts of both cities. I imagine it is like this at the majority of waterfront places, maybe even inland. Can you say PLAGUE?
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