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Are we about to live through a Nipah pandemic?
Preparedness – not fear – will decide how the next outbreak unfolds.
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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 Nipah virus in India’s West Bengal state – bringing the total to six – has created alarm across the world.
This comes just six years after similar fears were sparked in the Chinese city of Wuhan 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?
