{"id":1600198,"date":"2022-08-11T06:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1600198"},"modified":"2022-08-11T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T10:52:49","slug":"newly-identified-langya-virus-infects-35-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-identified-langya-virus-infects-35-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Identified Langya Virus Infects 35 in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnewly-identified-langya-virus-infects-35-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1600198&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nearly three dozen people have been sickened by a new virus spreading in China \u2014 with scientists warning it is too early to tell if it is deadly or spreads among humans.<\/p>\n<p>The Langya henipavirus \u2014 or LayV \u2014 appears to be jumping from animals in parts of China, nearly three years after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/03\/mysterious-viral-outbreak-in-china-sickens-dozens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coronavirus pandemic started there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It belongs to a family of viruses that \u201care known to infect humans and cause fatal disease,\u201d a Chinese-led team of international scientists wrote in a peer-reviewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2202705?query=featured_home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study in the New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That includes the Nipah virus, which spreads from pigs and kills up to 75% of those infected, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/nipah-virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the World Health Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, so far none of the 35 confirmed LayV cases found in Shandong and Henan provinces have proven deadly.<\/p>\n<p>Of those cases, some 26 were found to only have LayV, not other illnesses \u2014 and all of them suffered fevers, with half also having fatigue and coughs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Nipah-virus-45.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>The new Langya henipavirus, or LayV, closely resembles the Nipah virus, which kills up to 75% of those infected.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were other \u201cabnormalities,\u201d with more than half \u2014 54% \u2014 developing leukopenia, a decrease in disease-fighting white blood cells in the blood. More than a third also had impaired liver function, and 8% also saw worsening of kidney functions.<\/p>\n<p>After testing 25 species of wild animals in the surrounding areas, scientists found it in 27% of the tested shrews, suggesting the small, furry mole-like mammals \u201cmay be a natural reservoir of LayV,\u201d the scientists wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The same family of viruses has previously been known to spread among humans \u2014 but there have not been enough LayV cases to \u201cdetermine the status of human-to-human transmission,\u201d the scientists warned.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/beijing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beijing.jpg\" alt=\"People walk around downtown Beijing\" class=\"wp-image-23403323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/beijing.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/beijing.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/beijing.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Nearly three dozen people have been sickened by LayV in China.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">iStock\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere was no close contact or common exposure history among the patients, which suggests that the infection in the human population may be sporadic,\u201d the study said optimistically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContact tracing of 9 patients with 15 close-contact family members revealed no close-contact LayV transmission, but our sample size was too small\u201d to be certain, the report stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is among those <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/YmYiP#selection-887.0-923.128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paying close attention <\/a>to the virus\u2019 spread, Channel NewsAsia stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three dozen people have been sickened by a new virus spreading in China \u2014 with scientists warning it is too early to tell if it is deadly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1600314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}