replicates in that pig and passes to others; soon the whole herd is infected and human handlers begin to fall sick. It wasn’t a far-fetched scenario. Amid the diversified agriculture of Malaysia at the time, wherein marketable fruit could supplement revenue from livestock, there were more than a few pigsties with mango, water apple, and other fruit trees growing nearby. Nipah virus may have been falling in sweet little packets. What pig could resist?
