Langya virus

Scientists are monitoring a new virus in China, saying it was likely transmitted from animals to humans. No deaths have been recorded but it's prompted Taiwan's Centres for Disease Control to monitor the virus. Scientists have published just one letter on the virus. This is what they have said so far. What is Langya henipavirus (LayV)? It's a novel virus called Langya henipavirus (or LayV for short). So far, it has been detected in 35 people in eastern China since 2018. It was found through surveillance testing of people displaying fever symptoms. No deaths have been reported and scientists say there is no obvious evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus. They also said there was "no close contact or common exposure history among the patients". The Hendra hanipavirus under the microscope. It's in the same genus as Langya henipavirus, recently identified in China. ( Supplied: CSIRO/Alex Hyatt) The disease is related to the Hendra hanipavirus, which was discovered in Queensland in 1994. Of the seven people who have caught Hendra virus in the decades since, four have died. How do we know about this? LayV was first detected in late 2018, but the formal identification of LayV was made last week, with a letter to the editor published in The New England Journal of Medicine. A group of scientists had their letter to the editor published in the journal on August 4. The letter is about 500-words long and was co-authored by a group researchers from China and Singapore. Dr...

Nearly three dozen people in China have been sickened by a newly identified virus from the same family as the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses, though there’s no evidence the pathogen can be transmitted from person-to-person. The virus, named Langya henipavirus or LayV, was found thanks to an early detection system for feverish people with a recent history of exposure to animals in eastern China. The patients -- mainly farmers -- also reported fatigue, cough, loss of appetite and aches, with several developing blood-cell abnormalities and signs of liver and kidney damage. All survived.

Langya henipavirus Langya henipavirus ( LayV), also known as Langya virus, is a species of Etymology [ ] The name of the virus in Simplified Chinese ( 琅琊病毒, Lángyá bìngdú) refers to Classification [ ] Langya henipavirus is classified as a Symptoms [ ] Of the 35 people infected with the virus, 26 were identified as not showing signs of another infection. They all experienced More than half of the infectees had Transmission [ ] The researchers who identified the virus found LayV antibodies in a few goats and dogs, and identified LayV viral RNA in 27% of the 262 shrews they sampled. They found no strong evidence of the virus spreading between people. Control measures [ ] The References [ ] • ^ a b c Zhang, Xiao-Ai; Li, Hao; Jiang, Fa-Chun; Zhu, Feng; Zhang, Yun-Fa; Chen, Jin-Jin; Tan, Chee-Wah; Anderson, Danielle E.; Fan, Hang; Dong, Li-Yan; Li, Chang; Zhang, Pan-He; Li, Yue; Ding, Heng; Fang, Li-Qun; Wang, Lin-Fa; Liu, Wei (3 August 2022). New England Journal of Medicine. 387 (5): 470–472. • ^ a b c d e f g Murugesu, Jason Arunn (10 August 2022). . Retrieved 13 August 2022. • ^ a b c Lu, Donna (10 August 2022). • Zhu, Melissa (9 August 2022). • Kika, Thomas (8 August 2022). Newsweek . Retrieved 9 August 2022. • ^ a b c • ^ a b c . Retrieved 9 August 2022. • ^ a b c Mallapaty, Smriti (11 August 2022). 608 (7924): 656–657. • The Independent. 11 August 2022 . Retrieved 13 August 2022. • Amy Cheng (10 August 2022). . Retrieved 11 August 2022. • Michelle Fay Cortez (9 August 2022...

Watch Video: CDC now investigating another novel virus in China Scientists discovered a new virus in eastern China that may be able to jump from animals to humans. But health experts say it isn'tcause for panic. Researchers identified the new pathogen they're calling the Langya virus in 35 people from April 2018 to August 2021, Out of the 26 peoplenot co-infected with another pathogen, the most common symptoms were fever, fatigue, cough, anorexia, myalgia, nausea, headache and vomiting. Contact tracing of nine patients with 15 family members did not find any human-to-human transmission. “In order to really be something we should be worried about … it’s got to be able to transmit between people,” said Emily Gurley, epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “There’s no evidence from this report that person-to-person transmission is happening.” Scientists also found the virus in some domestic goats and dogs, but they hypothesized it may have originated in wild shrews where it waspredominately detected. Through genetic sequencing, researchers determined the virus is a part of the henipavirus family, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saysincludes five other viruses: Hendra virus, Nipah virus, Cedar virus, Ghanaian bat virusand Mojiang virus. The Cedar, Ghanaian and Mojiang viruseshave not definitively made the jump to humans. Gurley said the Langya virus most genetically resembles the Moijang virus. Although the report may inform ...