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Available outbreak investigations do not describe the first recognized human Nipah outbreak as affecting pork consumers. WHO says Nipah virus was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak among pig farmers in Malaysia. CDC's contemporaneous MMWR report states that the illnesses under investigation were among workers who had exposure to pigs, and that the apparent source for most human cases was exposure to pigs. A regional preparedness report on the Malaysia outbreak further notes that no human cases resulted from eating pork. So the article's statement that the first epidemic affected "consumers of pork" is contradicted by the published outbreak record.

The number in the article is not just outdated—it is numerically incorrect even for the period before 2017. In WHO's 2018 baseline situation analysis, Table 2 lists Nipah or Nipah-like outbreak deaths through 2015, including 106 deaths in Malaysia/Singapore (1998–1999), 45 in India (2001), and multiple Bangladesh outbreaks that bring the cumulative total to more than 350 deaths before 2016. Separately, WHO's 2026 Bangladesh outbreak notice says Bangladesh alone has documented 250 deaths since 2001, which by itself exceeds the article's "about 200 deaths" figure. That makes the statement clearly false.