Nipah virus with up to 75% mortality appears in India: is this corona 2.0? Virologist Steven Van Gucht explains

Once again, we receive images from Asia that are strongly reminiscent of the beginning of the corona pandemic. At airports, all employees wear face masks and travelers are screened with heat scanners. This is due to an outbreak of the Nipah virus in India, also known as the ‘freak virus’. Should we be concerned? What are the chances that the disease will spread to our country? “The response is indeed very strict, but I think that’s a good thing,” says virologist Steven Van Gucht of Sciensano.

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