@winteryeti posted about this a few days ago #1418551
If they are screening at airports it would seem possible that travel restrictions could possibly be next.
Airports across Asia have put urgent steps in place to stop the spread of a highly lethal virus.
Temperature screening has been set up by authorities in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia after two cases of Nipah virus were detected in India in late December.
The Indian health ministry said in a statement on 27 January that the cases in the eastern state of West Bengal have been contained but precautions in neighbouring countries as well as Nepal and Hong Kong remain in place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipah_virus
Nipah virus (Henipavirus nipahense) is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very high case fatality rate (40–75%).
This would make it spread less easily because the carrier of the virus dies.
Unlike covid, which we were told was both deadly and spreading.
That was the same reason why Ebola could be contained. However, viruses mutate. A somewhat less deadly mutation could spread faster and farther as victims live long enough to infect more.
Yeah.. I don’t wanna make this a covid discussion again, but I remember when the 2nd wave came in summer/autumn 2020 while the restrictions and mandates just intensified, I knew something didn’t add up..
Interestingly, some virus mutations make the virus worse, not easier to spread. Here's another example using Ebola. While for the victims it becomes far more lethal, for spread the virus becomes easier to contain due to its speed of burnout.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/studies-say-mutation-made-west-africas-ebola-strain-deadlier
Interesting. I wonder if there’s a difference between ebola and coronaviruses in this regard then (whether ebola is more probable to develop deadlier mutations than coronaviruses do).
I remember around 2020 many expert commentators (the term has suffered inflation since then) were saying that when the coronavirus mutates, it often becomes less deadly.
It is infectious for several weeks before the carrier becomes aware they are ill.
However it is not as infectious as Covid.