A killer is spreading across Asia, and nobody's screaming about it. The Nipah virus, which claims the lives of roughly nine in every ten people it infects, has just triggered a fresh outbreak in India. Yet whilst news cycles obsess over variants with single-digit fatality rates, this biological catastrophe barely registers a mention.
Taiwan has just moved to classify it as a Category 5 notifiable disease. The question haunting public health officials isn't whether we should be concerned—it's why we aren't alarmed already.
