Scientists say China’s ‘deadly’ Langya virus isn’t a repeat of Covid amid rising case numbers

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caused symptoms including coughing, fatigue, headaches and vomiting, is a member of the Hendra virus and the Nipah virus family. It can cause “fatal disease in humans,” but did not appear to have similar outcomes., Chinese scientists said the farmers did not have contact before being diagnosed with Langya and that there was no indication of person to person contact.

That means the newly emergent virus did not appear to be spreading in the same way Covid-19 did in the build-up to the global pandemic. “There was no close contact or common exposure history among the patients,” the scientists wrote in the study, “which suggests that the infection in the human population may be sporadic”.

Although better research is needed to fully understand the Langya virus, other scientists have echoed the study’s findings. “At this stage, LayV doesn’t look like a repeat of COVID-19 at all,” wrote Francois Balloux, director of the Genetics Institute at University College London , in a

 

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same as in wuhan..small small water..meanwhile hylam island iz goin 4 a FOOL shutduwn..try flyin 2 haiko

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