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Langya virus: Warning as brand new virus is detected in China

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Langya virus: Warning as brand new virus is detected in China
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By Joe Davies Health Reporter For Mailonline 17:28 BST 09 Aug 2022 , updated 19:23 BST 09 Aug 2022
  • Langya belongs to a family of viruses that are known to kill up to 75% of cases
  • None of the cases in two Chinese provinces so far have resulted in people dying
  • Experts believe the virus was passed on by animals, including shrews
Doctors have raised the alarm over a brand new virus that has infected dozens of people in China.

'Langya' henipavirus — or LayV — was detected in 35 people in the country's eastern Henan and Shandong provinces.

It belongs to a family of viruses that are known to kill up to three quarters of humans in severe cases.

None of the new cases have resulted in death and most are mild, with patients experiencing flu-like symptoms.

The novel virus is thought to have been passed on by shrews — small mammals from the same family as hedgehogs and moles.

A study published last revealed the virus was first detected in humans in 2019, with the most recent cases this year.

Chinese experts investigating the virus believe human cases are 'sporadic'. They are still trying to work out if it can spread from person to person.

Langya virus has been spotted in 35 people in China  (pictured, an illustration of Nipah virus, a related virus)
Langya virus has been spotted in 35 people in China (pictured, an illustration of Nipah virus, a related virus)
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What is Langya virus?​

What is Langya virus?
Langya virus is a henipavirus that has been spotted in humans for the first time in China.

It belongs to the same family as the same family as Nipah virus, which is a deadly pathogen that is usually found in bats.

Experts believe Langya was passed on to humans by shrews, a small, mole-like mammal.

Where was it spotted?

The virus infected 35 people in Henan and Shandong provinces in the East of the country.

The Taiwanese Centers for Disease Control raised the alarm about the virus although cases have been limited to China so far.

What are the symptoms?

The most common symptom suffered was fever, with all people infected coming down with a temperature.

It was followed by fatigue (54 per cent), cough (50 percent), loss of appetite (50 per cent), muscle aches (46 per cent) and feeling queasy (38 per cent).

Should I be worried?

None of the Langya cases have so far resulted in people dying, although patients have been left with flu-like symptoms.

There has been no evidence of human-to-human spread so far, although Taiwanese authorities have set up new testing to monitor its transmission.

The first cases were spotted before January 2019 and have only been sporadic since.

Researchers led by the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology published their findings on the virus, also known as LayV, in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

They spotted the first case before January 2019 in Shandong, before a cluster of 14 cases were found over the following year in both provinces.

No infections were found during the first year of the pandemic in January to July in 2020, with researchers pausing work to prevent the spread of Covid.

But 11 more were found from that month onwards.

Researchers tracked symptoms in patients to see how badly people were affected by the virus.

The most common symptom suffered by Langya patients was fever, with all people infected coming down with a temperature.

It was followed by fatigue (54 per cent), cough (50 percent), loss of appetite (50 per cent), muscle aches (46 per cent) and feeling queasy (38 per cent).

Around 35 per cent suffered liver problems while 8 per cent saw a fall in kidney function.

They also tracked the virus in animal populations to see whether it was being spread by domestic and wild animals, or if human-to-human transmission may have been to blame.

Chinese researchers found the virus in 71 of 262 shrews — a small mole-like mammal — surveyed in the two Chinese provinces where the outbreak started.

Alongside shrews, the virus was also spotted in dogs (5 per cent) and goats (2 per cent).

The paper said: 'There was no close contact or common exposure history among the patients, which suggests that the infection in the human population may be sporadic.

'Contact tracing of nine patients with 15 close-contact family members revealed no close-contact LayV transmission.

'But our sample size was too small to determine the status of human-to-human transmission for LayV.'

Langya is hepinavirus — the same family as Nipah virus, which is a deadly pathogen that is usually found in bats.

Like Covid, Nipah can spread through respiratory droplets. But it is far more deadly, killing up to three-quarters of people it infects.

It has been listed as one of the viruses most likely to cause the next pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The brain-swelling virus was first discovered in Malaysia and Singapore in 1999, when 300 cases led to 100 deaths.

There is currently no Nipah vaccine approved for humans — but at least eight are currently being tested on animals, including one made by Oxford University.
 

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Bat soup really is deadly.

I hope countries like Iran north korea work on bioweapons, vaccines and collaborate with the likes of Cuba and any other countries that can contribute.

Then they can help the rest of the world fight yankee-tiong bio warfare.

It's just disgusting how yankees and tiongs have been spreading chink virus ceca virus and loads of other viruses to depopulate the planet.
 

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Bat soup really is deadly.

I hope countries like Iran north korea work on bioweapons, vaccines and collaborate with the likes of Cuba and any other countries that can contribute.

Then they can help the rest of the world fight yankee-tiong bio warfare.

It's just disgusting how yankees and tiongs have been spreading chink virus ceca virus and loads of other viruses to depopulate the planet.

You're a fool if you still believe in the bat soup or wet market fairy tale used to explain the origins of Covid. :roflmao:

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orh mee suah

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It's not difficult to bring germs to foreign countries. Insects, migratory birds and even mini drones can do it.
Victoria Nuland has admitted before the senate committee that the US has biolabs in Ukraine..
America has over 300 Military 'research' biolabs around the world. At least 26 are in Ukraine.
 

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It's not difficult to bring germs to foreign countries. Insects, migratory birds and even mini drones can do it.
Victoria Nuland has admitted before the senate committee that the US has biolabs in Ukraine..
America has over 300 Military 'research' biolabs around the world. At least 26 are in Ukraine.
hahaha , no matter how you try to be rational and fair , you would be able to change the those with mindset that is casted in stone.
be prepared to get more stupid , dumb comments and from these group of "knowledgeable , expert " members.
 

orh mee suah

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hahaha , no matter how you try to be rational and fair , you would be able to change the those with mindset that is casted in stone.
be prepared to get more stupid , dumb comments and from these group of "knowledgeable , expert " members.
They should at least read up the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
If the Americans could do it to their citizens, there's nothing that can stop them from testing the engineered germs on their adversaries.
 

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It's not difficult to bring germs to foreign countries. Insects, migratory birds and even mini drones can do it.
Victoria Nuland has admitted before the senate committee that the US has biolabs in Ukraine..
America has over 300 Military 'research' biolabs around the world. At least 26 are in Ukraine.

Victoria Nuland, John McCain and other Swamp creatures went to Ukraine many years ago and ousted a duly elected president to install their puppet. Look it up.

That bitch had a hand in the biolabs, believe it. :cool:
 

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Let's lock down quickly before it is too late!
Imuho there is nothing wrong and definitelee wise choice to lockdown the world whenever a new deadlee virus is discovered. The time taken to leesolve matters will be much shorter than the disaster it can bring to mankind.
The price to pay will be many folds if lockdown is not done when is confirmed a deadlee virus and potential to become a pandemic.
Simple maths and does not need rocket science to do the sums.

Not possible or the world doesn't want to do it for greed is another different matter.
 
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All viruses in TiongCock are man-made. The fucking CCPee is going all out in biological warfare since they know they are no match for the US when it comes to conventional warfare.
And yes I'm also all out to 抹黑终国.
 

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if there are so many so called virology labs in the world, how cum majority of deadly virus outbreaks begin in prc? simple answer. because prc is simply fucked up.
 

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Imuho there is nothing wrong and definitelee wise choice to lockdown the world whenever a new deadlee virus is discovered. The time taken to leesolve matters will be much shorter than the disaster it can bring to mankind.
The price to pay will be many folds if lockdown is not done when is confirmed a deadlee virus and potential to become a pandemic.
Simple maths and does not need rocket science to do the sums.

Not possible or the world doesn't want to do it for greed is another different matter.
On the other hand it is fucking stupid idea to let the world leesume operations and still thinking to make more money when life is already at stake. Mostlee these stupid peoples would think no I won't be so unlucky to die from it so I turn a blind eye to it or pretend nothing is happening.
My uncle would ask what makes you think you won't get it when others are dying from it.
 
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