Get to know the new virus “Laywi” in “China” that originated from rats. And at least 35 people have been infected in eastern China.
Covid is not over yet. The world is faced with a new virus again, this time found its origin in “China” with a new virus called “Lewie” or read in Chinese “Lang Ya” The Spotlight news team summarizes everything you need to know as follows:
What is Layvi virus?
Laywi is a new virus known as “Langya henipavirus” or “LayV” and can infect from animals to humans.
Where and how is the Laywi virus found?
Scientists expect The origin of this virus is believed to be from a “shrew” whose name and face resembles a mouse, but it is not actually a rat because it is in the same family as the mole. Ghost rats look like small but pointed rats, found around the world and are thought to be the source of human transmission found in China this time.
Layvi virus What are the symptoms of the patient? How serious is it?
Most infected people will have fever-like illnesses: fever, cough, tiredness, loss of appetite, nausea, headache and vomiting, but not severe. and no deaths have been reported.
Layvi virus How many people have been infected? Is it distributed outside of China yet?
At least 35 people have now been infected in eastern China’s Shandong and Henan provinces. But there have not been any reports of the outbreak outside of China.
Layvi virus Found for the first time in the world or not?
– Laywi or Lang Ya is a new subspecies that have recently been found in China. It is a virus belonging to the same genus of “Nipah henipavirus” and “Hendra” (Hendra henipavirus), which currently does not have a vaccine. symptomatic treatment
– However, when compared to the “preliminary” form, the virus found in China is still weaker than Nipah and Hendra. The Nipah virus was first identified in 1999 in Malaysia. But a 2018 pandemic in India in the southern state of Kerala was discovered in India by a “bat” infection that killed 17 people, with a death rate of about 40. -75%