Langya vs. Nipah: China's New Virus Spread by Shrews Has a Deadly Relative

Langya vs. Nipah: China's New Virus Spread by Shrews Has a Deadly Relative

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http://www.newsweek.com/new-virus-langya-related-nipah-transmitted-shrews-1732416

Langya henipavirus (LayV), a virus that spreads by shrews which has been identified in 35 people in China, has an extremely deadly relative: Nipah virus.

The latest Langya cases were announced in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In it, Xiao-Ai Zhang, from the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, and colleagues said cases had been found in two provinces: Shandong and Henan.