00:00We'll be discussing Nipah virus and the recent reports from India. It is one of the many viruses
00:18that bats and fruit bats in particular carry. It has in the past spread into humans. I think the
00:26first outbreak was about 20 or 30 years ago and since then we've typically seen one or two outbreaks
00:34a year. Most outbreaks start and most transmission events are because of a contact either with an
00:43infected animal or with something that has been contaminated by fruit bats. The early symptoms are
00:51quite non-specific. They could be anything really sort of sore throat, fever, general feeling unwell,
00:58sore eyes, the sort of thing that could be caused by any disease or many different viruses. The thing
01:06that probably kills most is called encephalitis which is an infection and a swelling of the brain
01:12and when you get a encephalitis you start feeling very unwell. In terms of the initial infections,
01:24it's being careful about eating and drinking food that might be contaminated by fruit bats. For the
01:32traveller, if any of us go to these areas, the issue is the sort of things that you're not supposed to do
01:39anyway or you spend is you don't eat fruit without peeling it first. Don't drink unpasteurised or
01:50unheated drinks that have been heated to a temperature that would kill viruses. There's no
01:56vaccine that is currently available although I believe one is in development and there's no specific
02:03treatment so if you do get the infection what we say is that management is supportive in that you
02:12actually try and make keep people alive until they recover on their own rather than giving something
02:17that will kill the virus. Nipah virus doesn't spread too far unlike COVID but if we can hold the spread
02:26we can raise the progress by easy means by maintaining proper hygiene. There is no proper vaccine,
02:33there is no proper medicine, only conservative treatment is available but hygiene is the most important task.
02:40of course we all are afraid of all the viruses especially after corona, everything is going to change and we lost so much people
02:57so we think we should be very careful about these kind of diseases.
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