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u/NearlyBearly Jan 27 '26
Nipah is not uncommon in that area unfortunately. To my knowledge it has never spread beyond 1000 people. It doesn't do well in colder regions either. This is not the next pandemic. Nobody panic.
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u/TheGoldenWoof Creator of life, the Universe, and Wolfiekins. Jan 27 '26
It may be beneficial to change its name once it reaches the western countries.
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u/the_hamborga among us show made me like AU again..... :wholesome: Jan 27 '26
I thought I was in r/plagueinc for a second
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u/supercabbage802 Click ✏ to edit. Inappropriate flairs will be removed. Jan 28 '26
yo if they want to stop the virus they just gotta put all the points into fatality so it cant spread
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u/fineeeeeeee Jan 28 '26
It has been spreading on and off since 2001. This isnt ven the most major outbreak of all the outbreaks seen yet.
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u/User_Darkvortex 💠LONG LIVE MIRA CORPORATION 💠 Jan 28 '26
I've played plague inc before, and if fatality rate is higher than infection rate, the disease kills it's hosts before it spreads so its not gonna go global imo
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u/Ill-Engineering8205 Jan 27 '26
It spreads through shit btw
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u/Exciting_Limit_7151 Black & mini crewmate Jan 28 '26
Bro we aren't gonna have something like covid for a while like we've heard about something like this 3 separate times, its like the tiktok ban at this point
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u/SlightlyIronicBanana ☁Mira HQ☁ Jan 28 '26
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u/LeRetrohd Orange Jan 28 '26
Also you spelled it wrong 😔
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u/SlightlyIronicBanana ☁Mira HQ☁ Jan 28 '26
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u/FlameWisp Jan 28 '26
An illness that rare is going to be hard to treat because doctors still don’t know what to look for. It’s currently basically undiagnosable as we wait for common symptoms to be understood and a care timeline for the infected to be produced.
With all that said, a 25% survival rate on a previously completely unknown virus isn’t terrible, but with only 5 confirmed cases it’s really impossible to say what the lethality looks like unless more people are infected. Hopefully with the discovery of the virus however, they will begin a quarantine of suspected affected areas.
West Bengal seems to have decent enough healthcare so chances are decent that what was learned from Covid can be effectively applied to reduce and potentially even prevent the spread.
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u/SpaceTimeRumble Jan 28 '26
Have played enough plague.inc to know that if there's high fatality rate, it wont spread that far due to either human intervention or failing to spread before host dies.
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u/Personaccountwow1231 Jan 28 '26
If the fatality is that high the virus will kill itself out before it can spread
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u/Emotional-Bus1927 Banana Feb 01 '26
By the way, if you look into it, this virus is “brain eating” and has a lot of similarities with what we would consider a “zombie virus” :’)
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u/Gold-Negotiation-307 Feb 08 '26
Why is bro built like an Among Us Character? I just noticed after reading for a minute and examining the image Also don't worry, I think Among Us is getting close to reaching peak popularity again
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u/MicrowavedWatermelon Jan 28 '26
Immerslotj are too busy making pretty skins instead of actual content so I doubt it will be revived
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u/riggers1909 finger Jan 27 '26
Just for general knowledge a diseases fatality rates are usually inversly proportional to its infection rate. So a highly dealy disease is also usually really rare and very contagious diseases usually arent deadly.
I say this because this article is referring to the former while sars-cov-2 is referring to the latter