Research published<\/a>\u00a0in The New England Journal of Medicine last week said that the Langya henipavirus was found in 35 people in the Chinese provinces of Henan and Shandong.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Scientists said that 26 of those people had no other pathogen detected in their body besides Langya and had a range of symptoms, including nausea, fever, vomiting and cough.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAmong 25 species of wild small animals surveyed, [Langya] RNA was predominantly detected in shrews (71 of 262 [27%]), a finding that suggests that the shrew may be a natural reservoir of [Langya],\u201d researchers said.<\/p>\n
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Researchers think there may be only \u201csporadic\u201d infection among humans.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere was no close contact or common exposure history among the patients, which suggests that the infection in the human population may be sporadic. Contact tracing of 9 patients with 15 close-contact family members revealed no close-contact [Langya] transmission, but our sample size was too small to determine the status of human-to-human transmission for [Langya],\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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