Deja-flu: China sounds alarm as 35 people fall ill with ‘newly identified’ Langya virus that is thought to have jumped from shrews

Daily Mail Health

By JOE DAVIES HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 12:28 EDT, 9 August 2022 | UPDATED: 04:07 EDT, 10 August 2022

Doctors have raised the alarm over a brand new virus that has infected dozens of people in China.

‘Langya’ henipavirus — or LayV — was detected in 35 people in the country’s eastern Henan and Shandong provinces.

It belongs to a family of viruses that are known to kill up to three quarters of humans in severe cases. 

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