Assessment: This week, the World Health Organization unveiled an advisory group that will study the origins of the coronavirus and guide research to prepare the world against Disease ‘X’ …
The virus had lurked for years, lacking only one thing it needed to inflict widespread human death: a perfect opportunity.
“And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him …” Rev. 6:7-8
But two decades later, as the world grapples with a pandemic caused by a type of virus that circulates in bats, the world’s first Nipah outbreak is still viewed as a case study in zoonotic disease spillover from animals to humans, the hunts for their sources and the importance of bats as incubators for a variety of pathogens.
Amid controversy and investigations about the origin of the coronavirus, it is the story of Nipah Read More @ WAPO HERE