NN reports: It was added to the list of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’s (NIAID) pandemic pathogens to watch in October.
One of the viruses, the Nipah virus, can infect cells with receptors that regulate what gets in or out of cells that line the central nervous system and vital organs.
This variant has a fatality rate of up to 75 percent compared to Covid’s, which is well under one percent.
In fact, the 2011 film Contagion was based on this exact kind of imagined paramyxovirus.
Starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet, a woman returns home from a business trip in Hong Kong and brings back a lethal microbe that triggered a global pandemic.
The disease in the movie was the Nipah virus.
“Influenza has been sequenced to death,” Benhur Lee, a virologist at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, told The Atlantic.
Even though scientists have known about paramyxoviruses for more than one century, they have yet to understand how the viruses move into new species and mutations taken on to infect humans.
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What they are saying is: we plan on engineering another pandemic to kill billions.
So, National Security should visit them, make sure they can't engineer squat, very suspicious indeed, IMO!
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