All of these are zoonotic diseases that jumped from animals. A lesser-known zoonotic virus, Nipah, is of serious concern.

这些都是从动物身上传播的人畜共患疾病。一种鲜为人知的人畜共患病毒尼帕引起了严重关注。

The number of people who have died from Nipah is relatively small.

死于尼帕的人数相对较少。

So far, the Nipah virus has killed more than a dozen people.

迄今为止，尼帕病毒已导致十几人死亡。

Lini Puthussery was part of a team treating the first Nipah patients.

Lini Puthussery 是治疗第一批 Nipah 患者的团队的一员。

Those who contract Nipah show signs of the disease quickly.

感染尼帕病毒的人会很快表现出这种疾病的迹象。

Nipah was first discovered there in 1999.

尼帕于 1999 年首次在那里被发现。

It crossed from fruit bats to pigs to humans and was first picked up in the Malaysian village of Nipah in 1999.

它从果蝠身上传播到猪身上再传播到人身上，并于1999年在马来西亚的尼帕村首次被发现。

The CDC explains that the Nipah virus is named for a village in Malaysia.

CDC 解释说，尼帕病毒是以马来西亚的一个村庄命名的。

In this area, people can also get Nipah from contact with infected bats.

在这个地区，人们也可以通过与受感染的蝙蝠接触而感染尼帕病毒。

Other diseases that have emerged from animals over the last five to ten years, he says, include the Nipah and Hendra viruses. These are usually found in bats.

他说过去5到10年里来自动物的疾病还包括立百病毒和亨德拉病毒，这些病毒通常是在蝙蝠身上发现的。

He says other diseases that have moved from animals to humans in the past five to ten years include the Nipah and Hendra viruses, which are usually found in bats.

他还说在过去的五到十年，动物传播给人类的疾病还包括尼帕病毒和亨德拉病毒，它们通常存在于蝙蝠体内。

Kerala, the only state in India to have confirmed cases of covid-19, swiftly contained an outbreak of Nipah, a nasty virus, in 2018 and has since bolstered its health system.

印度喀拉拉邦是印度唯一一个确诊covid-19病例的邦，在2018年迅速控制了一种叫尼帕的难对付的病毒的爆发，并从那以后加强了卫生系统。

And the researchers say that this constant state of high alert may be why bats can carry Ebola, Nipah virus, and a whole lot of other infections with no symptoms at all.

而研究人员称这种持续的高警戒状态可能是蝙蝠携带埃博拉病毒、尼帕病毒及其它感染性疾病但却没有出现任何症状的原因。

Health officials are most concerned about the high mortality rate of the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists the Nipah virus as a developing disease that could cause a global pandemic. Ebola and Zika are also on this list.

卫生官员最关心的是这种疾病的高死亡率。世界卫生组织（WHO）将尼帕病毒列为可能蔓延至全球的流行疾病。这一名单上就包括埃博拉病毒和寨卡病毒。