nipah
Noun
Meaning
nipah (countable and uncountable, plural nipahs)
Alternative form of nipa
Anagrams
Examples
An example of this is the outbreak of Nipah virus in peninsular Malaysia in 1999, when intensive pig farming began on the habitat of infected fruit bats.
Except for rabies (through rabid bats) and the virus responsible for Nipah (fruit-eating bats), there is very little evidence of direct transmission of viruses from bats to humans.”
As per the World Health Organisation, Nipah virus, spread by fruit bats, causes communicable disease and is fatal for both animals and humans.
Recent ones include HIV (chimpanzees), Ebola (bats), Nipah (pigs and bats) and H1N1 Influenza (pigs and birds).
On June 4, after an all-party meeting to discuss the virus outbreak, the state government announced that it would reimburse the medical bills of all those undergoing treatment for Nipah.
In 1999, Nipah virus killed 109 people in Malaysia – infected fruit bats infected pigs which infected people – and we’d never even heard of the virus before 1998.