On Aug. 9, China’s official Global Times news website reported that the Chinese faculty of scientists of the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology in beijing with scientists in Singapore A medical article published in the New England Journal of Medicine said they had discovered a new virus called “Langya henipavirus” or “LayV”, belonging to the Nipah virus family. (Henipavirus) by discovering the first infected in Shandong province. In the period before January 2019, before 14 clusters of cases were found, research had to be stopped due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
News reports stated that So far, 35 people have been infected in eastern Shandong province. and Henan Province However, doctors were unable to confirm the infection from person to person, but said the patient had a history of coming into contact with animals. The virus is thought to have originated in “shrews”, small rodents. The patients had mild symptoms such as fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, muscle pain. and no deaths have been found.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), animals infected with the Nipah virus will have severe symptoms And for humans, the virus has the highest biosafety level 4, with infection-death rates ranging from 40-75 percent, higher than the coronavirus. Currently, there is no preventive vaccine and no specific treatment. Infected people are treated symptomatically. The World Health Organization classified Nipah virus. It is one of the viral groups with the highest chance of becoming an epidemic.
Wang Linfa, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases Program of the Duke-NUS Medical Institute said there was no cause for panic about the Layvi virus. But the nature of the virus once it has spread to humans has unpredictable consequences. and believed that the corona virus It probably wouldn’t be the last virus that caused a severe epidemic to have infected people all over the world. and affect the way of life of people.
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