Oct 25, 2023 12:48 PM
JJY94
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bats
india
nipah_virus
virus
public_health
SnakesInBowties
Welcome to posting.
tomatoboy
Since ya can’t click an image link: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/nipah/index.html
MagooFlashback80s
I believe the movie Contagion was partially inspired by this
LordKitchenersValet
Worth noting Nipah isn’t new, the first human cases were in 1999, and there’ve been breakouts mostly in India and Bangladesh roughly annually since.
Corrodias
New-ish, then.
incarc
Damnit bats, again?
BanditKablooie
Probably always will be because they live in such close proximity (good transmission) and bat immune systems are such that they carry A LOT of diseases but don't get sick, IIRC.
Yeah I've heard that too, bats are the typhoid Mary of the animal world.
Sullivanish
HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THIS, BANANAS?
jamieb03303
STOP USING ME TO MEASURE EVERYTHING!!!!!
SnakesInBowties
Welcome to posting.
tomatoboy
Since ya can’t click an image link: https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/nipah/index.html
MagooFlashback80s
I believe the movie Contagion was partially inspired by this
LordKitchenersValet
tomatoboy
Worth noting Nipah isn’t new, the first human cases were in 1999, and there’ve been breakouts mostly in India and Bangladesh roughly annually since.
Corrodias
New-ish, then.
incarc
Damnit bats, again?
BanditKablooie
Probably always will be because they live in such close proximity (good transmission) and bat immune systems are such that they carry A LOT of diseases but don't get sick, IIRC.
incarc
Yeah I've heard that too, bats are the typhoid Mary of the animal world.
Sullivanish
HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THIS, BANANAS?
jamieb03303
STOP USING ME TO MEASURE EVERYTHING!!!!!