Taiwan's CDC to monitor novel virus after China infection reports

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Taipei, Aug. 8 (CNA) Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is paying close attention to the development of a novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) in China after reports of at least 35 infections there.

Following reports of the infections in the Chinese provinces of Shandong and Henan, the CDC will soon establish a standardized procedure for domestic laboratories to conduct genome sequencing and strengthen surveillance, CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), said at a press briefing Sunday.

Taiwan's labs will embark on establishing a standardized method for genome sequencing soon, which is expected to be completed within a week or so, Chuang said.

Chuang said the CDC was currently focused on researching routes of transmission, adding that the CDC would team up with the Executive Yuan-level Council of Agriculture to check if similar diseases exist in species native to Taiwan.

According to Chuang, all but nine of the 35 cases in China were infected with LayV only, with symptoms such as fever, fatigue, and coughing.

However, no deaths have been reported due to LayV so far but this situation requires further monitoring, he said.

The virus, discovery of which was announced in a letter to the editor published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Aug. 4, has been predominantly detected in shrews.

According to researchers, it is not yet known if the virus can be transmitted from human to human.

LayV belongs to the Paramyxoviride family, which, according to the article on NEJM, can "infect humans and cause fatal disease."

(By Chen Chieh-ling and Ken Chao)

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CDC to monitor novel virus after China infection reports - Focus Taiwan

Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is paying close attention to the development of a novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) in China after reports of at least 35 infections there.

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The Langya henipavirus, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, has been discovered in China, with 35 human infections reported so far, Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said, adding that the nation would establish a nucleic acid testing method to identify the virus.

A study titled “A Zoonotic Henipavirus in Febrile Patients in China” that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday said that a new henipavirus associated with a fever-causing human illness was identified in China.

The study said an investigation identified 35 patients with acute infection of the Langya henipavirus in China’s Shandong and Henan provinces, and that 26 of them were infected with the Langya virus only, with no other pathogens.

The 26 patients developed symptoms including fever (100 percent), fatigue (54 percent), a cough (50 percent), loss of appetite (50 percent), muscle pain (46 percent), nausea (38 percent), headache (35 percent) and vomiting (35 percent).

They also showed a decrease in white blood cells (54 percent), low platelet count (35 percent), liver failure (35 percent) and kidney failure (8 percent).

When asked for confirmation, CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) on Sunday that said according to the study, human-to-human transmission of the virus has not been reported, and that a serological survey of domestic animals found 2 percent of the tested goats and 5 percent of the tested dogs were positive.

Test results from 25 wild animal species suggest that the shrew might be a natural reservoir of the Langya henipavirus, as the virus was found in 27 percent of the shrew subjects, he said.

Chuang said the 35 patients in China did not have close contact with each other or a common exposure history, and contact tracing showed no viral transmission among close contacts and family, suggesting that human infections might be sporadic.

However, as the CDC has yet to determine whether the virus can be transmitted among humans, people need to pay close attention to further updates about the virus, he said.

As the Langya virus is a newly detected virus, Taiwan’s laboratories will need to establish a standardized nucleic acid testing method to identify the virus, so that human infections could be monitored, if needed, Chuang added.

Zoonotic Langya virus found in China, CDC says - Taipei Times

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Bio Terrorist China just released their lab created virus. nothing is natural about this

 

[canada-man]

in 2020 China banned domestic flights but allowed international flights to spread the lab created SARS COV 2 virus

will they do the same with this newly lab crated virus?

 

[Valcazar]

So are all viruses caused by the Chinese now?

 

[Pleasure Hound]

So are all viruses caused by the Chinese now?

Apparently, yes. Maybe it is time the rest of the world looked into that instead of licking China's balls......

 

[canada-man]

Keeping an eye on communist china

 

[basketcase]

Is it worth commenting that this virus has been identified since 2018 and there are no known cases of human to human transmission?

How about this virus family having been seen for more than a decade in equatorial Africa, Australia, and South Asia.

Of course it's funny to see C-M complaining about viruses after his campaign to claim that covid wasn't a viral infection.

 

[canada-man]

Is it worth commenting that this virus has been identified since 2018 and there are no known cases of human to human transmission?

How about this virus family having been seen for more than a decade in equatorial Africa, Australia, and South Asia.

Of course it's funny to see C-M complaining about viruses after his campaign to claim that covid wasn't a viral infection.

why complain when you never read anything you don't like?

 

[basketcase]

why complain when you never read anything you don't like?

What's the matter? Do you not like it when people ACTUALLY read up on the news stories instead of just accepting the conspiracy mindset?

This virus has been documented for 4 years with a few dozen cases in total and in that time and none of them were person to person transmission.

 

[canada-man]

What's the matter? Do you not like it when people ACTUALLY read up on the news stories instead of just accepting the conspiracy mindset?

This virus has been documented for 4 years with a few dozen cases in total and in that time and none of them were person to person transmission.

dude you never read my posts when you disagree with them. even from mainstream news sources like cbs, nbc, etc

 

[basketcase]

I read it. Then I read a few others on the topic. Does the fact that I wanted to learn more about it bother you?

This virus has been documented for years and has only had a few dozen cases, all of them from direct contact with infected animals. It seems strange that after years of you complaining that covid coverage is simply to scare people that you post about a different virus that has caused zero deaths.