According to a study by the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology published last week, the Langya virus cases were identified after several patients experiencing a fever and reporting a history of animal exposure in eastern China were examined by health officials as part of a health surveillance project.
It’s unclear how dangerous the Langya virus could be to humanity, as all the patients who contracted the virus in China so far experienced mild flu-like symptoms, and there were no related fatalities reported.
The most common symptom of the Langya virus appears to be a fever (experienced by all patients), but those infected with the virus also reported fatigue (54 per cent of patients), loss of appetite (50 per cent), muscle pain (46 per cent), cough (50 per cent), nausea (38 per cent), headache and vomiting (35 per cent) after contracting the virus.
But as none of the patients in China had close contact with each other, experts believe that the transmission of the virus from animal to human is still sporadic.
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