#nipah

[diebootzenkatzen]

Nipah

[butt0n-z]

Get Nipah'd, Nerd

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[unluckymeat]

NIPAH! (^▽^)

[smileberry09]

She’s a lil cutie

Rika is my favorite

[tomato-lonch]

First degree murder, nipah!

I saw that meme and I had to redraw it with characters from When the cicadas cry.

Also, It's funny because it's canon.

[lukagamedev]

[buri-trash]

RIKA furude keychain in the making?!?! my favorite character of all tiem

[fleaterson]

NYAN CAT!!!!!!^^

[anime-to-the-t]

[vanillaly]

[felixcloud6288]

✧˖NIPA~☆ BEAM!!!✧˖°.

[diebootzenkatzen]

[lovedentist]

my first artfight attack!

[reasoningdaily]

Fox News: India racing to contain deadly Nipah virus outbreak as hundreds are tested in Kerala state

Health officials in India are racing Thursday to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus, which has already killed two and carries a fatality rate the World Health Organization says is as high as 75%. 

Around 800 people have been tested over the last few days in the country’s southern Kerala state, with two adults and a child placed in a hospital after receiving a positive diagnosis, according to Reuters. 

"We are testing human beings... and at the same time experts are collecting fluid samples from forested areas that could be the hotspot for the spread," Veena George, the state’s health minister, told the news agency. "We are in a stage of hypervigilance and detection." 

Public offices, government buildings and religious institutions have been shuttered in parts of the region as samples of bat urine, animal droppings and half-eaten fruit were taken from the village where the first victim lived, Reuters also reports. 

Health workers wearing protective gear shift people who have been in contact with a person infected with the Nipah virus to an isolation center at a government hospital in Kozhikode, in India's Kerala state, on Thursday. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes the Nipah virus as being zoonotic — meaning that it can be transmitted from animals to people — and that fruit bats are the primary carriers of it in nature. 

"Nipah virus is also known to cause illness in pigs and people," the CDC says, adding, "Infection with NiV is associated with encephalitis (swelling of the brain) and can cause mild to severe illness and even death." 

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the Nipah virus fatality rate is estimated at 40% to 75%, but that it can "vary by outbreak depending on local capabilities for epidemiological surveillance and clinical management." 

"Infected people initially develop symptoms including fever, headaches, myalgia (muscle pain), vomiting and sore throat," WHO also said. "This can be followed by dizziness, drowsiness, altered consciousness, and neurological signs that indicate acute encephalitis. Some people can also experience atypical pneumonia and severe respiratory problems, including acute respiratory distress. Encephalitis and seizures occur in severe cases, progressing to coma within 24 to 48 hours." 

Residents fix a sign reading "Nipah containment zone" to prevent the spread of Nipah virus in India's Kerala state on Wednesday. (Reuters)

The CDC says the virus is transmitted through direct contact with infected animals or humans and their bodily fluids, or by eating food products that have been contaminated by animals. 

Staff members install a sign reading, "Nipah isolation ward, entry strictly prohibited," at a hospital where a ward is being prepared for suspected Nipah virus patients in the Kozhikode district of India's Kerala state on Tuesday. (Reuters)

[aquietjune]

Flowers of Eldia, unraveling

Last entry for the July Break Bingo, a strange one (dear Bernkastel people, if you know the AoT canon, please try to give it a go -- I wanted to try writing such a story for a long, long time.) And yes, the gif is there for a reason.

Fandom: Shingeki No Kyojin / Attack on Titan

Characters: Historia Reiss, Frederica Bernkastel

Ships: Historia/Other Female Character, Historia/Ymir of the 104th (past), Historia&/Hitch Dreyse (up to you)

Summary:

During winter, Historia is required to be in Mitras, the capital of Eldia, to attend military meetings and the nobles' court. It's with a heavy weight in her heart that she leaves her peaceful life in the countryside, for life in the city is pure hell. However, even as she longs for a different arrangement, she too can no longer deny that what the new government decides in her name will impact the people's lives... and hers, too. In despair and in loneliness, is it possible for her to find an ally, however unlikely? Set during the time skip after the Rumbling.

CW: Talk of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, slut shaming (and a lot of pervasive misogyny throughout).

Written for the @julybreakbingo, prompts: "If you have a problem with me, then tell me. Don't talk about it behind my back." + "Why are you smiling? This is serious."

[theculturedmarxist]

Maybe this has something to do with it

MARUTHONKARA, India: It was more than two weeks before doctors even realised what they were treating, the fourth outbreak in five years of the lethal, brain-swelling Nipah virus in India’s Kerala region. By then, hundreds of people had been exposed to the bat pathogen.

 Halting the disease’s spread required deploying an army of workers, who put this village and eight others on partial lockdown for two weeks, surveyed more than 53,000 houses for signs of illness and tracked down 1,200 people who had come into contact with infected patients, according to the World Health Organization.

Ultimately, six people were infected, and two of them died. Though Kerala’s response to contain the outbreak drew international praise, the quick spread of the virus and its impact on tens of thousands of people illustrate what many scientists and world health leaders say is a weakness in public health policy: relying solely on disease containment. Governments, they say, must also control land development and protect animal habitats in areas where there is high risk of pathogens leaping from animals to people, a phenomenon known as spillover.

[...]

Reporters compared ecological conditions across the globe from 2002 through 2020 with those that existed at the time of past spillovers, identifying 9 million sq km – covering 6% of the Earth’s land mass – where conditions were ripe for pathogens to jump from bats to humans. Nearly 1.8 billion people lived in those jump zones in 2020, an increase of 57% since 2002.

The analysis focused on bats because they are linked to many of the deadliest disease outbreaks of the past half century, including the recent Covid-19 pandemic. Though its specific source is still unknown, the virus that causes Covid-19 is related to coronaviruses found in some horseshoe bats, a type common in tropical Asia. Kerala is one of the likeliest places on earth for spillover to occur, the analysis showed.

[...]

Nipah, which comes from bats and causes a lethal, brain-swelling fever in humans, has been linked to the deaths of two dozen people in Kerala since its first, surprise appearance here in 2018. A 1998-1999 epidemic in Malaysia killed at least 105. Hundreds more have died in near-annual outbreaks in Bangladesh since 2001. Nipah is classified as a priority pathogen by the WHO because of its potential to trigger an epidemic. There is no vaccine to prevent infection and no treatment to cure it.

edit: I guess not if the ban is months old

seriously, what the fuck is this about?

they've just outright banned the tag for an indian state that's home to over 34 million people