China had not yet woken up from the shock of the coronavirus outbreak, until doctors sounded a new alarm, warning of the emergence of the Lanjia virus, which has infected 35 people.
Langia belongs to a family of viruses that kill up to three-quarters of people in severe cases.
Scientists believe that hedgehogs, which belong to the family of hedgehogs, are the main source of the spread of this disease.
None of the new cases detected in eastern China’s Henan and Shandong provinces resulted in deaths, and most were mild and flu-like.
According to a study published in the “New England Journal of Medicine”, researchers led by the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology tracked symptoms in patients to see how many people were infected with Langia virus.
The researchers found that the most common symptoms experienced by Longia patients were fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite, muscle aches and nausea.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, about 35 percent suffered from liver problems, while 8 percent saw a decrease in kidney function.
The researchers also tracked the virus in animal populations to see if it was spread by domestic and wild animals or if human-to-human transmission was the cause.
Chinese researchers found the virus in 71 of 262 insects, a small mole-like mammal, in the two Chinese provinces where the outbreak began.
In addition to lice, this virus has also been detected in dogs and goats.
It is stated in this study that until now it is not possible to determine the state of transmission of the disease from one person to another.
Langia is a virus of the Nipah virus family that was first discovered in Malaysia and Singapore in 1999, when 300 cases resulted in 100 deaths.
There is currently no approved Nipah vaccine for humans, but at least eight vaccines are being tested in animals, including one developed by the University of Oxford.
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