Langya virus

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 ...

The virus infected 35 people in Henan and Shandong provinces in the East of the country. None of the Langya cases have so far resulted in people dying, although patients have been left with flu-like symptoms. It belongs to the same family as the same family as Nipah virus, which is a deadly pathogen that is usually found in bats. Langya virus is a henipavirus that has been spotted in humans for the first time in China. The virus has never been spotted in humans before and experts believe it was passed on by shrews A study published last week revealed the virus was first detected in humans in 2018 but dozens of cases have been found since.

Langya virus patients developed symptoms like fever, fatigue, a cough, loss of appetite, muscle pain, nausea, headache and vomiting.

Meanwhile, Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are currently establishing a nucleic acid testing method to identify and check the spread of the virus. The investigation identified 35 patients with acute infection of the Langya henipavirus in China's Shandong and Henan provinces, and that 26 of them were infected with the Langya virus only, with no other pathogens. Some of the patients who have been infected with the virus developed symptoms including fever, fatigue, a cough, loss of appetite, muscle pain, nausea, headache and vomiting.

The Langya henipavirus belongs to the same family of viruses, including Nipah, which is known to kill up to three quarters of humans in severe cases.

Furthermore, Chinese researchers found the virus in 71 of 262 shrews - a small mole-like mammal - in the Henan and Shandong provinces. After tracking the symptoms of the virus in the patients, researchers found that the most common one was fever. About 99 per cent of the coronavirus sequences reported globally in a month - between July 8 and August 8 - were linked to the Omicron variant, the World Health Organization has said in its latest weekly bulletin, highlighting that “BA.5 descendent lineages” are increasing in diversity. Parts of western, southern, central and eastern England were put into “drought” status following a meeting of the National Drought Group on Friday. The UK is currently struggling on many fronts. A study published earlier revealed that the Langya virus was first spotted in human beings in 2019, with majority of the recent cases reported this year. However, none of the fresh cases have so far resulted in fatality and most are mild, with patients suffering from flu-like symptoms.

The new type of Henipavirus (also named Langya henipavirus, LayV) was found in throat swab samples from febrile patients in eastern China, state-run Global ...

To receive it on Telegram, please click here. (To receive our E-paper on whatsapp daily, please click here. Further investigation found that 26 out of 35 cases of Langya Henipavirus infection in Shandong and Henan provinces have developed clinical symptoms such as fever, irritability, cough, anorexia, myalgia, nausea, headache and vomiting, the report said.

China sees another zoonotic virus outbreak, which infected 35 people in the Shandong and Henan provinces of China so far, official media reported.

Scholars who participated in the study pointed out that this newly discovered Henipavirus, which may have come from animals, is associated with some febrile cases, and the infected people have symptoms including fever, fatigue, cough, anorexia, myalgia, and nausea. Beijing: A new type of animal-derived Henipavirus has so far infected people in Shandong and Henan provinces of China, official media here reported on Tuesday. The new type of Henipavirus (also named Langya henipavirus, LayV) was found in throat swab samples from febrile patients in eastern China, state-run Global Times quoted media reports. China sees another zoonotic virus outbreak, which infected 35 people in the Shandong and Henan provinces of China so far, official media reported.

Less than three years after the discovery of the Covid-19 virus, Chinese scientists say that they have discovered a new virus that may potentially be fatal ...

The emergence of a new virus in the henipavirus seems to be cause for concern given the profile of the two other henipaviruses, the Hendra virus and Nipah virus, both of which can be transmitted by animals to humans and both of which have high fatality rates. The Taipei Times reported that the virus has not yet spread from human to human, though CDC officials cautioned that might change if the outbreak spreads. Scientists believe that the virus is zoonotic, passed from animals to humans.

The news comes as monkeypox has been declared a public health emergency and COVID-19 continues to roll through much of the United States. However, the new virus ...

A new type of animal-derived Henipavirus has so far infected people in Shandong and Henan provinces of China, official media here reported on Tuesday.

There is currently no vaccine or treatment for Henipavirus and the only treatment is supportive care to manage complications. There is currently no vaccine or treatment for the virus and the only treatment is supportive care to manage complications The cases of Langya henipavirus so far have not been fatal or very serious, so there is no need for panic, Wang Linfa, a Professor in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School who was involved in the study said, adding that it is still a cause for alert as many viruses that exist in nature have unpredictable results when they infect humans.

Virus, which causes symptoms including fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite and muscle aches, is believed to have spread from animals to humans.

The virus was the only potential pathogen found in 26 of the 35 people, suggesting that “LayV was the cause of febrile illness”. Scientists sequenced the LayV genome and determined it was a henipavirus, a category of zoonotic RNA viruses that also includes Hendra virus and Nipah virus. All of the people infected had a fever, the scientists said.

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, ...

The Langya Henipavirus, known as “Langya”, has already infected 35 people says Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control.

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The newly discovered virus is a “phylogenetically distinct Henipavirus”, according to a recent study — A Zoonotic Henipavirus in Febrile Patients in China — ...

The authors of the study have underlined that the sample size of their investigation is too small to determine human-to-human transmission. The patients were accompanied by abnormalities of “thrombocytopenia (35%), leukopenia (54%), impaired liver (35%) and kidney (8%) function”, the study noted. In all likelihood, the new virus has jumped from an animal to humans. The types of Henipaviruses that had been identified prior to this included Hendra, Nipah, Cedar, Mojiang and the Ghanaian bat virus. Langya was discovered in eastern China during surveillance testing of patients who had fever along with a recent history of animal exposure. Langya Henipavirus: Almost three years after the novel coronavirus was detected in China, a new zoonotic virus has been discovered in the country’s two eastern provinces with 35 infections identified so far.

A new virus outbreak is raising concerns in parts of China as 35 new cases have been reported. The novel Langya Henipavirus (LayV) was first detected in the ...

The virus is suspected to have jumped from animals to humans in a process called zoonosis and scientists found the LayV viral RNA in over 200 shrews they tested hinting that they could be the natural reservoir of the virus. The virus has reportedly been found in throat swab samples from febrile patients in eastern China. Reports indicate that the early patients of the virus are mainly farmers, who have reported fatigue, cough, loss of appetite, and aches. A new virus outbreak is raising concerns in parts of China as 35 new cases have been reported.

A zoonotic virus Langya has been reported in China, with 35 people infected so far. The new type of Henipavirus has been found in China's Shandong and Henan ...

Henipavirus is a category of zoonotic RNA viruses that also includes Hendra virus and Nipah virus. A correspondence about the new virus by scientists from China, Singapore and Australia has been published in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). There have been no deaths from "LayV", as the virus is called by scientists.

Scientists detected another potential zoonotic spillover nearly three years into the coronavirus pandemic, though evidence suggests very low fatality rates.

Among the 35 patients, 26 were found to be infected only with the Langya virus. Two are considered highly virulent and are associated with high case-fatality ratios, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But none of the Langya patients died, the study stated. Over a roughly two-year period, 34 other people were found to have been infected in Shandong and neighboring Henan, with the vast majority being farmers.

Chinese scientists say a new 'LayV' virus that has sickened dozens likely emerged in shrews.

“But it is yet another reminder of the looming threat caused by the many pathogens circulating in populations of wild and domestic animals that have the potential to infect humans.” But the scientists said the sample size of patients is too small to completely rule out human-to-human transmission. The scientists believe that the virus likely emerged in shrews, small mammals, who then passed it on to humans.

Less than three years after the outbreak of COVID-19 started in China, the threat of the new animal-borne LayV virus has been identified.

According to the Chinese scientists, contact tracing of 9 patients with 15 close-contact family members revealed no transmission of the virus. But as none of the patients in China had close contact with each other, experts believe that the transmission of the virus from animal to human is still sporadic. The most common symptom of the Langya virus appears to be a fever (experienced by all patients), but those infected with the virus also reported fatigue (54 per cent of patients), loss of appetite (50 per cent), muscle pain (46 per cent), cough (50 per cent), nausea (38 per cent), headache and vomiting (35 per cent) after contracting the virus.

The distinct Henipavirus named Langya transmits from animals to humans, so it is not as contagious as coronavirus. As of now, there's no reported human-to-human ...

The contagiousness of the virus depends upon its spreadability and contagiousness. The study observed that contact tracing of nine patients with 15-close contact family members showed no close-contact LayV transmission. Besides 35% of the 26 patients, complained of headaches and vomiting. The virus was found in 27 per cent of the shrew subjects, the Deputy DG of CDC stated. Later, it was identified and isolated from the swab sample of one of those patients. According to a serological survey on domesticated animals, it was seen that 2 per cent of the tested goats and 5 per cent of the tested dogs were positive.

At least 35 patients across 2 Chinese provinces have been infected with the phylogenetically distinct Langya henipavirus (LayV), according to a report in ...

LayV is most closely phylogenetically related to Mojiang henipavirus, a virus with a genome length of 18404 nt originally discovered in southern China. The Langya virus is comprised of 18402 nucleotides with genomic organization identical to other henipaviruses. Though the sample size is small, they suspect Langya virus was hosted by shrews before infecting humans.