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Brain-swelling Nipah virus is 75 times more deadly than Covid could be next pandemic Exclusive Updated: 19 Feb 2021, 15:53 A BRAIN-SWELLING disease 75 times more deadly than Covid could mutate to become the next pandemic killing millions, scientists have warned. Experts told Sun Online how a number of emerging diseases could trigger another global outbreak – and this time it could be 'The Big One'. ⚠️ Read our    The fruit bat-borne virus Nipah is a prime candidate for serious concern, they fear. Severe brain swelling, seizures and vomiting are just some of the symptoms of this highly...

Updated: 19 Feb 2021, 17:40 Invalid Date, A BRAIN-SWELLING disease 75 times more deadly than Covid could mutate to become the next pandemic killing millions, scientists have warned. Experts told Sun Online how a number of emerging diseases could trigger another global outbreak – and this time it could be 'The Big One'. 7 The fruit bat-borne virus Nipah is a prime candidate for serious concern, they fear. Severe brain swelling, seizures and vomiting are just some of the symptoms of this highly potent disease - which was first discovered in 1999 in Malaysia. Outbreaks in south and south-eas...

  The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one' and that a more deadly virus could yet sweep the globe.  Speaking on Tuesday, Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies programme said the pandemic was a 'wake-up call'.  'This pandemic has been very severe… it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one,' he told a media briefing.  Dr. Ryan added: 'This [coronavirus] is a wake-up call. We are learning, now, how to do things better: science, logistics, training and governance, how to communicat...

Friday, 18 December 2020, 11:07 am 2020 has been the year of the scientist, or at least the public health scientist. Science is a method, not a discipline; it includes social science, because social science does at least notionally apply the scientific method. While being about the discovery of truth, the scientific method implies that truth (with the exception of identities such as mathematical truths) is unattainable. With the scientific method, 'meaningful' propositions are either false or yet to be falsified. The latter 'yet to be falsified' propositions are regarded as provisionally true...