So, What is the Napah Virus?

 Back in the late 1990s....this virus started up in Malaysia and centered on swine.  What you can generally say....once it got transferred over to humans, things got rough.

You get a fever, cough, serious headache, and progress onto a breathing problem....then you develop a state of confusion.  

At this stage (probably around the 7th day).....you likely have a coma situation going on (brain inflammation as part of the mess), and the odds of death are between 50 and 75 percent. 

To stop the spread there in 1999....Malaysia killed off a heck of a lot of the pig population in the country.  That basically stopped the spread.

Naturally, you'd say that this is probably ten times worse than Covid.

Well....I noticed that India started up a new worry.....they've noticed the Napah virus there. Down in the Kerala state (south part of India)....they've got around sixty to seventy folks on quarantine....with the virus.

Deaths so far? One....a 12-year-old kid.  What you can take out of this story.....an ambulance picked up the kid and took him to four different clinics/hospitals....where none felt they had the situation to treat him.  The folks in quarantine?  They are all hospital folks who came into contact with the kid during this ambulance trip.

So you add this up. To be honest, with Covid, it's a .1-percent chance of death.  With Napah?  It's around a plus-50-percent.  

You really don't want this thing to go massive....you could wipe out civilization in a matter of two or three years.  

The funny thing about Napah?  Well....you can get it from pigs, or bats.