Yeah, and Hugo and

his colleagues wrote about this in the journal Nature Communications this week. And through more precise dating, they were able to figure out that when Nuna broke apart 500 million years later, the diamond spewed out. The subcontinents banged together and stretched, which caused a volcanic eruption of diamonds. A volcano of diamonds. Yes. Amazing. Sign me up. Okay.

Now, our final story that you have brought to us, it's a little bit more of a downer, but it is an interesting detective tale. Yeah. This is an epidemiological mystery. It is in southern India. It's an outbreak of a virus called the Nipah virus. Tell me more.

Well, so Kamala Thiyagarajan wrote about the outbreak for NPR's Goats and Soda blog. It's the fourth outbreak in the state of Kerala since 2018. There's been two deaths. The first one was at the end of August and six cases so far. Six cases so far. And what does it do to you? Well, this is a virus that jumps from animals to people. Fruit bats are the primary hosts. And it's on the World Health Organization's list of viruses with pandemic potential. And the usual symptoms can include severe respiratory problems like pneumonia, even encephalitis, which is brain swelling. And that can bring fevers, headaches, sometimes disorientation or even lead to coma. And

the virus can be deadly, too. There was a big outbreak in Malaysia in the late 90s that killed over 100 people. Ugh. Okay,

this sounds awful. Do we know how this current outbreak, the one in India, began? Well,

scientists know that Nipah can spread from bats to humans when bats contaminate things people eat or drink. In some past outbreaks in Bangladesh, that's been through the sap of date palm trees. And when people drank the palm sap, they got sick. Researchers are testing bats in Kerala for the virus to see if that might be the case here. But they haven't figured out yet exactly how this outbreak started.