In September 1998, an outbreak of acute encephalitis in a community of pig farmers in Malaysia coincided with an outbreak of respiratory illness and encephalitis in pigs. The outbreak of the newly discovered Nipah Virus caused widespread human suffering, particularly for pig farmers with a total of 265 human cases resulting in 105 deaths over a nine-month period. High human population density, environmental degradation (deforestation/slash and burn forest fires) and an increased overlap at the human-wildlife interface, combined with a stressed bat population, created a hotspot for spill over of an emerging zoonotic disease. The farming of pigs in proximity to fruit agriculture led to the emergence of Nipah Virus. In the two decades since, there have been almost annual outbreaks across Asia, suggesting more needs to be done in terms of applying a One Health approach and developing One Health policies (Chua, 2003).