New Langya virus found in China could be 'tip of the iceberg'

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New Langya virus found in China could be 'tip of the iceberg'
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It might not cause the next pandemic, but it’s teaching us just how easily viruses can travel unnoticed from animals to humans. 9News

that may not cause the next pandemic but suggests just how easily viruses can travel unnoticed from animals to humans, scientists say.This is according to a team of scientists who believe it may have spread directly or indirectly to people from shrews — small mole-like mammals found in a wide variety of habitats.Scientists believe the virus may have spread directly or indirectly to people from shrews — small mole-like mammals found in a wide variety of habitats.

"We are hugely underestimating the number of these zoonotic cases in the world, and this is just the tip of the iceberg," said emerging virus expert Leo Poon, a professor at theThe first scientific research on the virus, published as a correspondence from a team of Chinese and international researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, received global attention due to heightened concern over disease outbreaks.

In order to reduce the risk of an emerging virus becoming a health crisis, "it is absolutely necessary to conduct active surveillance in a transparent and internationally collaborative way," said Wang, a professor at theThe first clues to the presence of a novel virus emerged when a 53-year-old farmer sought treatment at a hospital in Shandong province's Qingdao city in December, 2018 with symptoms including a fever, headache, cough and nausea, according to documentation from the...

Over the next 32 months, researchers across the three hospitals screened for this virus in similar patients, ultimately detecting it in 35 people, who had a range of symptoms included cough, fatigue, headache, and nausea, in addition to fever.

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