Raising pigs is not new in Malaysia, but intensive industrial production is. The Leong Seng Nam farm, where the epidemic broke out, confined more than 30,000 pigs. The Nipah virus, like all contagious respiratory diseases, is a density-dependent pathogen,
925 requiring a certain threshold density of susceptible individuals to spread, persist, and erupt from within a population.
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