![]() The LayV is of the same genus as the Nipah Virus. No the big “uh oh” would be if there were any evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission and the virus proved that it could kill humans. Regardless, shrew-to-human transmission is very unlikely to cause a large epidemic among humans because that would take a bleep load of shrews and shrew human Meetups. ![]() This is another reason why “Dancing with the Shrews” may not be a great TV show concept. So it may be shrew that they are the natural reservoir of for the virus. Testing of 25 wild small animal species revealed a shrew dat finding: 71 of the 262 shrews tested had evidence of LayV RNA. So the virus seems to have made the goat and dog rounds to some degree. Blood tests did reveal antibodies to the LayV in three of the 168 goats and four of the 79 dogs tested. However, this sample size was still too small to say for sure whether the LayV can be passed from one human to another. That’s based on contact tracing that was conducted for nine of the patients who had close contact with 15 different family members but didn’t seem to pass the virus to any of them. So time will tell whether the LayV can cause life-threatening illness.Ī second key difference from the SARS-CoV-2 is that there hasn’t been any clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the LayV to date. However, a significant proportion of these patients have had some abnormalities on their blood tests with 54% having low white blood cell counts, 35% having low platelet counts, 35% showing evidence of abnormal liver function, and 8% showing evidence of abnormal kidney function. This doesn’t sound like the LayV will necessarily get you on your knees, so to speak. Of the 26 cases where the LayV was the only pathogen found, 100% had a fever, 54% had fatigue, 50% cough, 50% loss of appetite, 46% had muscle aches, 38% nausea, 35% headaches, and 35% vomiting. At least, that’s according to the letter authored by a team from the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, the Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Duke–National University of Singapore Medical School, and other institutions. One current key difference between the LayV and the SARS-CoV-2 though is that LayV has not yet caused any human deaths. So, it will be important to keep a close eye on what happens next. Nevertheless, the LayV is part of the same family as the deadly Hendra and the Nipah viruses, which is kind of like being part of the Corleone family from the “Godfather” movies. Before the you start hoarding toilet paper again, though, keep in mind that so far there have been two key differences between the LayV and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A Letter to the Editor just published in the New England Journal of Medicine described how the Langya henipavirus (LayV) has left at least 35 people in the Shandong and Henan provinces of China infected and sick with fevers. This is a different virus from the Covid-19 coronavirus. ![]() And this virus has some really nasty relatives. (Photo: Getty) gettyĪ novel virus appears to have jumped from other animals to humans for the first time. And shrews may be the natural reservoir for this novel virus. The Langya henipavirus (LayV) appears to have jumped from other animals to humans for the first.
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