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Topic	Nipah virus with a fatality rate of up to 86% spreads in India
Proto_Spark 09/15/23 11:39:49 AM #25:	Pogo_Marimo posted... That's... not true. Really high mortality rates tend to kill infected people faster than they can reproduce and spread to others, so even if its quite infectious its much more likely to just burn out the whole supply quickly before it can spread too much. It's not a guarantee, but it is the likely response of something with as high a mortality rate as might be reported. <cite>Proto_Spark posted [p:976085479] in Nipah viru... [t:80566467]...</cite> <quote>Pogo_Marimo posted... </cite><quote>That's... not true.</quote>Really high mortality rates tend to kill infected people faster than they can reproduce and spread to others, so even if its quite infectious its much more likely to just burn out the whole supply quickly before it can spread too much.It's not a guarantee, but it is the likely response of something with as high a mortality rate as might be reported.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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