Are we about to live through a Nipah pandemic?

Preparedness – not fear – will decide how the next outbreak unfolds.

A Nipah patient being moved in the Indian state of Kerala in 2024.

PHOTO: REUTERS

Alex R Cook and Leo Yee Sin

The news of two new confirmed cases of the

– bringing the total to six – has created alarm across the world.

This comes just six years after similar fears were

about a new coronavirus that was likewise making people very sick. Could the world be looking at the early days of a Nipah-26 pandemic?

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