Novel Langya Henipavirus

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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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Source: The Indian Express

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