More surveillance is needed for a new virus found in dozens of people in eastern China, which may not lead to the next pandemic, but suggests how easily the virus can pass from animals to humans Doesn’t even get noticed. Scientists gave this information in a report.
The virus, called the Langya Henipavirus, has infected nearly three dozen farmers and other residents, according to a team of scientists that can spread it directly or indirectly to people.
It has not caused any deaths but was found in 35 unrelated fever patients in hospitals in Shandong and Henan provinces between 2018 and 2021.
The first scientific research on the virus, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine as a correspondence from a team of Chinese and international researchers, drew global attention due to growing concern over the disease outbreak.
CNN reported that hundreds of thousands of new Covid-19 cases are still being reported around the world every day, almost three years before the pandemic was first detected.
