Shrews are believed to be the carrier of LayV, a new animal virus identified in 35 people with respiratory symptoms in Eastern China.
, mumps, and many respiratory viruses that infect humans.
It is still not clear how people were infected in the first place — whether directly from shrews or an intermediate animal, said Gurley. That's why a lot of research still needs to be done to work out how the virus is spreading in shrews and how people are getting infected, she added. Nevertheless, Gurley finds that large outbreaks of infectious diseases typically take off after a lot of false starts."If we are actively looking for those sparks, then we are in a much better position to stop or to find something early." Still, she noted that she didn't see anything in the data to"cause alarm from a pandemic-threat perspective."
Though there is not currently any cause for worry of a new pandemic, vigilance is crucial. Holmes says there is an urgent need for a global surveillance system to detect virus spillovers and rapidly communicate those results to avoid more pandemics, such as the one sparked by COVID-19."These sorts of zoonotic spillover events happen all the time," he said."The world needs to wake up.
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