Jennifer Rigby

Nipah virus is a really nasty disease.

It has a very high fatality rate between 40% to 75%.

It's a virus.

It's spread mainly through contact with infected bats.

But the reason that this is something not to worry about too much right now around the world and the risk of global spread is that it doesn't spread that easily from person to person.

It's a disease we know about.

It's been around since it was found in Malaysia at the end of the 1990s.

There's been outbreaks almost every year in Bangladesh.

Small outbreaks because it doesn't spread easily from person to person.

So this isn't COVID.

This is not a pandemic.

This is not, you know, zooming across borders at this point.