Ua vave ai ona fa’atulagaina puipuiga i malae va’alele i atunu’u o Asia e pei o Meleisia, Thailand ma Nepal, i taumafaiga taofia le pepesi o le vairusi.
Na ta'ua e Dr Subarna Goswami o le Darjeeling Tuberculosis Hospital o loo taumafai ona tuliloa pe faia se contact tracing o tagata na felāta'i ma i la'ua ua pesia ma fa’atonuina i latou e faanofo'esea pe quarantine, e pei ona tatou masani ai i le taimi o le KOVITI 19:
"So far, only two patients have tested positive. The remaining contacts, approximately 190-200 of them, have been quarantined and those who showed symptoms have also been tested. They also tested negative apart from these two patients, no one else has tested positive yet.”
O le vairusi le nipah virus e ono mata'utia ona āuga ma e tele ina pasi mai i manu felelei e feavea'ia ae maise lava i pe'a.
O āuga o le fiva ma soso’o ai ma le fiva fai'ai.
Na ta'ua e le World Health Organisation o le fa’asaoina o le ola o se tagata mai le nipah virus e fa’alagolago i le lelei o ‘au’aunaga soifua maloloina o le atunu’u e pesia ai se tagata.
Na saunoa Dr Goswami o le tulaga e sili ona fa’apopoleina ai ona e lē o iai se vaila’au puipui se vaccine mo le nipah virus i le taimi nei, e lē o iai foi ni togafitiga ua iloa ma fa’atuatuaina ni aogā:
“The nipah virus infection is very dangerous. There are three reasons for this. First, there is no cure for it, there is no specific treatment and no medicine works. Secondly, there is no vaccine or inoculation for it. And the third thing is that its morbidity rate, the fatality ratio, is very high.”
Na saunoa Dr Sayan Chakraborty o le Manipal Hospital, o le tulaga sili ona matautia ai le nipah virus o le sosolo lea i le fai'ai o le tagata:
“It starts like a normal viral fever. There is fever, headache, pain in the whole body. Along with it, there is pain in the throat and a cough. The cough transforms into Pneumonia-like conditions. There is difficulty in breathing. Then, gradually, the infection spreads to the brain which reduces the senses of the patient. Eventually, the patient goes into a coma.”
O le vairusi le nipah virus, na muamua iloa i Meleisia i le 1999.
Talu mai le tausaga lena, toetoe lava o tausaga uma na molimauina ai le pesia o tagata i le nipah virus ae maise lava i atunu’u o Bangladesh ma Initia.
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