<story><title>Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs</title><url>https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-provides-business-update-and-announces-three-new</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpetralia</author><text>Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?</text></comment>
<story><title>Moderna is announcing three new vaccine programs</title><url>https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-provides-business-update-and-announces-three-new</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>credit_guy</author><text>One of these is for the little known Nipah virus. This virus is really scary. Like the Coronavirus, it jumps to humans from bats. Unlike the Coronavirus, it is extremely lethal. In the last outbreak, in 2018 [1], the case fatality rate was 89%. Fortunately, there were only 19 cases (17 died).&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_Kerala&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101a</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;One of these is for the little known Nipah virus.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just submitted about this:&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;future&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20210106-nipah-virus-how-bats-could-cause-the-next-pandemic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;future&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;20210106-nipah-virus-how-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25741798&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=25741798&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>