New deadly Ebola-like virus that lives in monkeys in Africa is 'poised for spillover' into humans - Daily Mail

Scientists fear they've found the next big pandemic threat — a virus that lives in African monkeys.

Simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV) causes devastating Ebola-like symptoms including internal bleeding and kills virtually every primate it infects.

Scientists fear they've found the next big pandemic threat — a virus that lives in monkeys in Africa.

In a lab study, they found virus is able to latch on to a human receptor with ease and make copies of itself.

In a lab study, they found virus is able to latch on to a human receptor with ease and make copies of itself.

Senior author of the study Dr Sara Sawyer said: 'This animal virus has figured out how to gain access to human cells, multiply itself, and escape some of the important immune mechanisms we would expect to protect us from an animal virus. .

No cases of the virus have been detected in humans, but a novel virus that spreads easily could cause a new pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic was instigated by a novel virus that the human immune system did not recognize

They zeroed in on simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV), a type of arterivirus which causes a lethal disease similar to Ebola virus disease

It was a novel virus believed to have jumped from bats to an intermediary animal before spilling over to humans

The same is possible for another highly contagious novel virus