According to a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Chinese and Singaporean researchers report the discovery of a new virus, “Langya,” that can spread from animals to humans and cause fatal disease. Researchers have discovered a new animal-derived henipavirus that can infect humans in Shandong and Henan. The author named it Langya henipavirus (LayV). Thirty-five people are currently infected, and genomic testing suggests that shrews may be the natural host for the virus. It has not yet been determined whether LayV can be transmitted from person to person. Among the 35 acutely infected patients, 26 had no other pathogens, all of them had fever symptoms, and more than half of them had fatigue, cough, anorexia, etc. Symptoms such as vomiting, 8% even had impaired renal function. In the serosurvey of 25 species of animals, shrew had the highest seropositivity ratio of 27%, which was presumed to be the natural host of the virus; dogs and goats were 5% and 2%, respectively.
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