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One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...
One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...
Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?
Disclaimer: I'm absolutely no expert. The above is only my best guess.
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If chronic Lyme illness is caused by lingering bacteria hidding in the body's tissues, the real way to eliminate any doubts about alternate causes is precisely to get a Lyme vaccine. Then, if the symptoms persist, we could easily deduce that the cause is other. Except that one thing... the chronic Lyme could very well caused by an autoimmune side-effect (this is among the most serious explanations), in which case I d…
I don't think that's a very scientific approach as a vaccine may have other effects on the symptoms. Finding lingering bacteria would be the right call. Autopsy or biopsy. And then get better testing, less "false positive". With no specific (set of) symptoms, symptom based evidence seems inherently weak.
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Agreed. I wonder about the trolley problem that is medical testing requirements. It seems like we, as a society, would tend to never want to pull the lever to save more at the cost of risking a few. Social and contractual liability makes it a bad trade. Acceptable risk is very low which can, paradoxically, cause more death and discomfort. It would be nice to see a greater awareness of the tradeoffs. These things tend…
Theoretical question here: Do you want to be the one sacrificial lamb that dies, in order for the rest of us to live? If you want to play Jesus here, then I’m sure the rest of society will support you.
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I don't think that's a very scientific approach as a vaccine may have other effects on the symptoms. Finding lingering bacteria would be the right call. Autopsy or biopsy. And then get better testing, less "false positive". With no specific (set of) symptoms, symptom based evidence seems inherently weak.
Bacteria is latent. CFS is not not strep throat. Generally body-wide immune dysfunction is present. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19393200/
Very cool! Also I’d hope to see Lyme in the mix. It’s so pervasive and creates all kinds of weird dietary and nervous system issues.
>It’s so pervasive and creates all kinds of weird dietary and nervous system issues. I am not an expert, but I think it would be amiss to omit the Lyme disease controversy with these statements. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477530/ Lyme disease has a simple antibiotic treatment. The Lyme serology test has high false-positive rate. There might be many people who believe they have Lyme disease therefor…
An example: https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2019/three-antibiot...
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It's very odd that dogs can get vaccinated for Lyme but not humans...
Agreed. I wonder about the trolley problem that is medical testing requirements. It seems like we, as a society, would tend to never want to pull the lever to save more at the cost of risking a few. Social and contractual liability makes it a bad trade. Acceptable risk is very low which can, paradoxically, cause more death and discomfort. It would be nice to see a greater awareness of the tradeoffs. These things tend…
One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...
Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?
One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...
Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?
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Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?
It also depends on how long it stays asymptomatic (so that a host can go around and infect other people before dying) and how well it spreads from host to host, and probably other factors that I don't know about