While people are worried about whether there will be a new pandemic after the Covid-19 pandemic, experts have warned about the next pandemic threat. This time, the virus at the center of fear is the Nipah virus. Here are the details about the man who died from Nipah virus after drinking raw fruit juice and the new pandemic threat…
‘NEXT PANDEMIC THREAT’ WARNING: NIPAH
According to the news in The Sun; The virus, which inspired the blockbuster movie Contagion, about a global epidemic, kills 75 percent of the people it infects. Health officials said the unnamed man from Bangladesh drank raw date juice contaminated with urine or saliva from infected fruit bats.
“The sample was sent for laboratory testing and the result came back positive,” officials said. “We learned that the person drank raw date juice,” Tahmina Shirin, director of the Ministry of Health’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told Reuters.
The health ministry warned people not to drink raw date juice after at least 139 people contracted the virus after consuming the drink. Nipah is a zoonotic virus transmitted to humans from animals such as fruit bats and pigs. It was first detected in Malaysia in 1999 but is predominantly spreading in parts of Bangladesh and India.
According to IEDCR, a total of 10 out of 14 people infected with Nipah virus in Bangladesh died in 2023; This number is the highest number of deaths in the last seven years.
PERSONALITY CHANGES IN SURVIVORS
About 20 percent of survivors are left with long-term neurological problems, including personality changes or seizure disorders.