The henipavirus "Langya," or "LayV," a novel virus that gets transmitted by shrews — small mammals from the same family as hedgehogs and moles — has been affiliated with a "family of viruses" that kill up to 75% of humans in severe cases, according to The Daily Mail.
Nevertheless, none of the cases reported in China have ended in death, and most are mild, with patients experiencing only "flu-like symptoms" to date, mentioning The Mail report. According to virus experts in China, the human-to-human transmission cases of LayV have been "sporadic."
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The most typical symptoms of LayV, according to researchers: Are fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite, muscle aches, and feeling queasy.
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Furthermore, about 35% of LayV patients encountered liver problems, while 8% experienced a reduction in kidney function.
According to reports, the LayV henipavirus stems from the "Nipah" virus, a deadly pathogen typically found in bats. Similar to the coronavirus, Nipah can spread through respiratory droplets.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies Nipah as a "zoonotic virus, meaning that it can spread between animals and people. Fruit bats, also called flying foxes, are the animal reservoir for [Nipah] in nature."
At this point, the Nipah vaccine has yet to be verified for human access. However, an Oxford University study is one of the eight vaccine testing areas with animals.
According to Langya researchers: "There was no close contact or common exposure history among the patients, which suggests that the infection in the human population may be sporadic. ... Contact tracing of nine patients with 15 close-contact family members revealed no close-contact LayV transmission."
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The researchers added, "but our sample size was too small to determine the status of human-to-human transmission for LayV."
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The World Health Organization lists LayV as one of the possible viruses to cause the next pandemic.
Researchers led by the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology published their findings on the virus, also known as LayV, in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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They discovered the first case before January 2019 in Shandong, before a cluster of 14 cases were found over the following year in both provinces.
No infections were found during the first year of the pandemic in, January to July in 2020, with researchers pausing work to prevent the spread of COVID.
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