Nipah virus: what about Brazil in this outbreak?

Abstract

Humanity has witnessed countless epidemics and pandemics throughout its history, events like these are understood as something extremely challenging, and which undoubtedly are in line with complex concepts and contexts that subsidize communication instabilities and, sometimes, collective panic. In parallel, from a unique health perspective, the impacts of human activity on the environment, opportunely lead to promoting and potentially dangerous mechanisms for the emergence of diseases with pandemic potential. In this tension of nature, human beings and animal life meet, which are mutually affected. It is believed that mammals and birds host around 1.7 million unknown viruses, and of this total, around 540,000 - 850,000 have the ability to infect humans. Within this perspective, recent cases of Nipah virus infection in India were reported in newspapers and social media around the world, evoking a resurgent primitive demand for fear among people about the potential of a new global threat.