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  • 11 August, 2022

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Novel Langya Henipavirus

Novel Langya Henipavirus

  • China's Shandong and Henan provinces have both reported cases of a novel Langya henipavirus (LayV).
  • The zoonotic virus has been identified in 35 people so far, marking the first instances of human-to-animal transmission.

What is the Langya virus?

  • Henipaviruses, a new zoonotic virus is categorized as pathogens at biosafety level 4 (BSL4).
  • They can cause serious sickness in both humans and animals, and there are currently no approved medications or vaccines designed specifically for humans.
  • A "phylogenetically different Henipavirus" is the recently found virus.
  • The Paramyxoviridae family of viruses includes the genus Henipavirus, which includes the viruses Nipah and Hendra.
  • A family of single-stranded RNA viruses called Paramyxoviridae is responsible for a variety of viral illnesses.
  • Prior to this, the genus Henipavirus has been divided into Hendra, Nipah, Cedar, Mojiang, and the Ghanaian bat virus.
  • It is unknown whether the Mojiang virus, Ghanaian bat virus or Cedar virus infect people.
  • Hendra and Nipah, however, infect people and have the potential to be lethal.?

Discovery

  • In eastern China, surveillance testing on patients with fever and a recent history of animal exposure led to the discovery of Langya.
  • It was found in the throat swab sample of one of those patients and isolated.
  • The disease might have been spread by shrews, tiny insectivorous mammals that resemble mice

Transmission

The study's authors have emphasized that their sample size is insufficient to determine human-to-human transmission

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