Nipah Has Been Known Since 1999

News on social media that the next big pandemic is the Nipah virus is doing rounds. Despite only affecting a few Asian countries and less than 1000 people since 1999.

Several news outlets, including here and here, headlined that the Nipah Virus is a potential pandemic with a fatality rate of 75%. The news comes after the Netherlands based  Access to Medicine Foundation, released their Access to Medicine Index Report for 2021, headed by Jayasree K Iyer.