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In Topic: Music
Yesterday, 12:55 PM
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In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
29 January 2026 - 09:40 PM
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India says it has contained Nipah virus outbreak as some Asian countries ramp up health screenings
India's Health Ministry said Tuesday that two Nipah cases had been detected since December and that all identified contacts had been quarantined and tested. The ministry did not release details about the patients but said 196 contacts had been traced and all tested negative.
[...] There were no reported cases of the virus outside India, but several Asian countries introduced or reinforced screening measures at airports as a precaution. The safety measures were put in place after early media reports from India suggested a surge in cases, but health authorities said those figures were "speculative and incorrect."
Nipah virus outbreak: India says it contained zoonotic virus as Asian countries ramp up health screenings - ABC
... but can the Indian government, under Modhi, be trusted on this?
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In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
29 January 2026 - 04:22 PM
QuickTidal, on 29 January 2026 - 03:55 PM, said:Isn't it funny that RFK had the US disconnected from the WHO JUST as there isn Nipah virus outbreak in India that has caused more than than a few South East Asian countries (so far) to shut their airports behind quarantine protocols...
Goddamnit if RFK and the US get us into another fucking pandemic because they are untethered from the world health body that warns and gives advice for preventing this shit...I'm gonna be pissed.
In its current form apparently it's not transmissible enough and causes severe illness too quickly after the infected person becomes contagious. But left unchecked it could mutate into a pandemic contagion...
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"Nipah is a paradox," [Dr. Vimal Pahuja, MD, Associate Director – Internal Medicine at Dr. L H Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai] says. "It has the mortality of a pandemic-level threat, but it lacks the transmission efficiency to become one."
The virus requires close contact with bodily fluids, limiting its reproductive number (R0). In many cases, patients become severely ill quickly, reducing their ability to spread the virus widely.
"It burns too hot and too fast," Dr. Pahuja explains. "That is our natural barrier."
However, he adds a note of caution.
"The biology says 'unlikely,' but virology always warns 'possible.' Nipah is only one genetic mutation away from becoming more transmissible. If that barrier breaks, the equation changes overnight."
https://etedge-insights.com/industry/healthcare/nipah-virus-explained-how-it-spreads-why-its-deadly-and-why-india-is-on-alert/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20biology%20says%20'unlikely%2C,Nipah%20offers%20a%20cautious%20reassurance.
Of course most scientists and the WHO initially assumed COVID-19 was effectively not transmissible through aerosols because of its relatively low initial replication rate, with disastrous consequences.
And scientists were able to successfully infect African green monkeys through aerosol transmission, using laboratory equipment:
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African green monkeys were exposed to either the Malaysia (NiV-M) or Bangladesh (NiV-
strain using a large-particle aerosol exposure. NiV-M infection resulted in a fatality rate of 27%, while NiV-B infection led to a 75% fatality rate characterized by rapid respiratory decline and systemic viral dissemination.
https://journals.plo...al.ppat.1013835 -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
27 January 2026 - 05:51 PM
Well it's only natural that he'd want ICE there, since there will be a lot of heads of state around to kidnap...
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In Topic: What's messing with your groove?
26 January 2026 - 07:58 PM
Cause, on 26 January 2026 - 12:53 AM, said:My fellow Americans. Why is everyone freaking out about the storm. Even Boston is acting like it's the apocalypse, people panic emptied shelves. The weather alerts are coming in steady, the mayor gave a press briefing. It's 10 inches of snow.
In my 2 Boston winters, this being the second, this seems very normal for Boston.
Apparently doesn't seem to be the case in Philadelphia:
pennsylvania is in a state of emergency. "everyone stay inside". philadelphia: (video)
... though I suspect these videos are probably from before the storm.
For those who don't immediately recognize them through the snow, those are the Art Museum stairs (from the Rocky movies).
In my youth I might have sledded down them sans sled. Just rolling through the snow...
Saw another video of some guy lying down on a sled tied to the back of a moving car... other cars flying past.
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