Langya Virus: New zoonotic infection found in China, know its symptoms and precautions
2 years, 4 months ago

Langya Virus: New zoonotic infection found in China, know its symptoms and precautions

India TV News  

Langya Virus: The world is still dealing with Covid 19 and Monkeypox, and now there is a new infection outbreak in China. The new zoonotic virus is named ‘Langya Virus’ by medical researchers, also known as ‘LayV’. Chinese health officials are working on the throat samples they have collected from the patients with symptoms and confirmed Langya virus presence. Symptoms of Langya Virus: Fever Fatigue Muscle spasm Loss appetite Vomiting Body ache Cough Image Source : FREEPIKLangya Virus cases Precaution: There is no vaccination for the Langya virus as such, but one should avoid coming in contact with the sick person.

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Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India
5 months ago

Nipah virus: A recurring, deadly threat in India

Hindustan Times  

Health authorities in India face outbreaks of Nipah virus almost every other year. After a 14-year-old boy died of Nipah virus Sunday, July 21, 2024, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, authorities tried to stop a new outbreak — just a year after the last outbreak in 2023. Nipah virus is commonly found in fruit bats, which feed on …

8 NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN viruses spark another COVID-like pandemic risk | DEETS HERE
1 year, 1 month ago

8 NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN viruses spark another COVID-like pandemic risk | DEETS HERE

India TV News  

Researchers in China have identified eight never-before-seen viruses on Hainan, a tropical island located in southern China. These viruses were discovered within rodents, and experts have issued a warning, stressing that there is a significant risk of these viruses potentially infecting humans if they breach the species barrier. Notably, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union …

Nipah virus in Kerala: 4 people including minor recover from infection
1 year, 2 months ago

Nipah virus in Kerala: 4 people including minor recover from infection

Live Mint  

Nipah virus update: Kerala Health Minister Veena George has shared an update on Nipah virus update in the state. The state Health Minister Veena George said that four people, including a nine-year-old boy, who were under treatment for Nipah in Kozhikode have recovered. While speaking to news agency ANI, she shared the good news and said, “"Four people including a …

Nipah virus outbreak in India: What do we know so far?
1 year, 3 months ago

Nipah virus outbreak in India: What do we know so far?

Hindustan Times  

Authorities in India are scrambling to contain a rare outbreak of Nipah, a virus spread from animals to humans that causes deadly fever with a high mortality rate. Health workers collect blood samples from goats in the neighborhood for testing after a 12-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus in Kozhikode, Kerala. The first Nipah outbreak was recorded in 1998 …

What is Nipah Virus? Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
1 year, 3 months ago

What is Nipah Virus? Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

India Today  

Nipah virus has once again been detected in Kerala's Kozhikode district, marking the third occurrence of the virus in the area since 2018. According to the World Health Organisation, Nipah Virus is defined as a zoonotic illness transmitted from animals to humans and can also be spread through contaminated food or direct person-to-person contact. NIPAH VIRUS SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS: Human …

Explained | What is the nature of Langya, the new zoonotic virus identified in China?
2 years, 4 months ago

Explained | What is the nature of Langya, the new zoonotic virus identified in China?

The Hindu  

The story so far: A new zoonotic virus that has evolved to infect humans was identified in China in August. On August 4, the New England Journal of Medicine described the virus called Langya, reported in patients in Eastern China. In a letter published in NEJM, a team of researchers from China and Singapore led by Xiao-Ai Zhang, Hao Li, …

Dozens in China infected with Langya virus found in shrews
2 years, 4 months ago

Dozens in China infected with Langya virus found in shrews

The Hindu  

Dozens of people in China have fallen ill with a new virus that is also found in shrews, a report has said, but there is so far no evidence of human-to-human transmission. The infections were found in China's eastern Shandong and central Henan provinces, affecting 35 people, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine this month. …

Do we need to worry about the new China virus?
2 years, 4 months ago

Do we need to worry about the new China virus?

Deccan Chronicle  

MELBOURNE: A new virus, Langya henipavirus, is suspected to have caused infections in 35 people in China's Shandong and Henan provinces. However, there's much we don't know about the new virus known as LayV for short including whether it spreads from human to human. Researchers in China first detected this new virus as part of routine surveillance in people with …

New 'Langya' virus hits China, 35 people infected
2 years, 4 months ago

New 'Langya' virus hits China, 35 people infected

India Today  

A new type of animal-derived Henipavirus has so far infected people in Shandong and Henan provinces of China, official media here reported on Tuesday. The new type of Henipavirus was found in throat swab samples from febrile patients in eastern China, state-run Global Times quoted media reports. The cases of Langya henipavirus so far have not been fatal or very …

New ‘Langya’ virus hits China as 35 people found infected: How deadly is it?
2 years, 4 months ago

New ‘Langya’ virus hits China as 35 people found infected: How deadly is it?

Hindustan Times  

Even as Covid-19 has not completely been wiped out and the new monkeypox outbreak has raised concerns, a new type of animal-derived virus has been reported in China. The Henipavirus - also known as ‘Langya’ henipavirus - has so far infected 35 people in eastern China's Henan and Shandong provinces, the country's official media reported on Tuesday. None of the …

Monkeypox Cases India: Centre holds high-level review meeting, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal says separate isolation ward created at LNJP
2 years, 5 months ago

Monkeypox Cases India: Centre holds high-level review meeting, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal says separate isolation ward created at LNJP

ABP News  

New Delhi: After Delhi's first case of monkeypox was confirmed on Sunday, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed that a high-level review of the situation has been called by the Director General of Health Services today. The Health Ministry confirmed that a 34-year-old man from the national capital has been confirmed as the first case of monkeypox virus …

Time for vigilance: The Hindu Editorial on monkeypox cases in India
2 years, 5 months ago

Time for vigilance: The Hindu Editorial on monkeypox cases in India

The Hindu  

India reported its first laboratory-confirmed, imported case of monkeypox virus when a 35-year-old man in Kerala’s capital tested positive. Since then, the virus has spread to over 63 countries — Europe has reported 8,238 cases from 35 countries as of July 12, and the U.S., 1,470 cases as of July 14. While a few rave parties in Spain and Belgium …

Guideline released for monkeypox
2 years, 6 months ago

Guideline released for monkeypox

China Daily  

By Wang Xiaoyu| China Daily| Updated :2022-06-16 China released its first diagnosis and treatment guideline for monkeypox on June 15, making it clear that the virus can spread through close contact and droplets, but most patients can recover without special treatment. The guideline was published by the National Health Commission as global counts of the contagious disease rise and World …

Guideline released for monkeypox
2 years, 6 months ago

Guideline released for monkeypox

China Daily  

An electron microscopic image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virus particles as well as crescents and spherical particles of immature virions, obtained from a clinical human skin sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak in this undated image obtained by Reuters on May 18, 2022. Rules for diagnosis, treatment issued as global counts of disease on the rise China released …

Guideline released for monkeypox
2 years, 6 months ago

Guideline released for monkeypox

China Daily  

An electron microscopic image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virus particles as well as crescents and spherical particles of immature virions, obtained from a clinical human skin sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak in this undated image obtained by Reuters on May 18, 2022. Rules for diagnosis, treatment issued as global counts of disease on the rise China released …

Health Ministry issues norms to tackle monkeypox
2 years, 6 months ago

Health Ministry issues norms to tackle monkeypox

The Hindu  

I India needs to be prepared to tackle cases of monkeypox in view of the increasing reports of cases in non-endemic countries, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday while issuing ‘Guidelines on Management of Monkeypox Disease’. Editorial | Paying a price: On monkeypox outbreak Suspected cases include a person of any age having a history of travel to affected …

Scientists find 18 more viruses from China's wet markets
3 years, 1 month ago

Scientists find 18 more viruses from China's wet markets

India TV News  

Highlights The origins of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has been linked with a seafood market in Wuhan The first cases of SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged from animal to human transmission at Wuhan's wet market An international team of scientists has identified 18 mammalian viruses, which pose high risk to humans and domestic animals, from China's infamous wet markets. China has maintained …

Twelve-yr-old in Kerala succumbs to Nipah virus infection; symptoms, origin, causes of disease
3 years, 3 months ago

Twelve-yr-old in Kerala succumbs to Nipah virus infection; symptoms, origin, causes of disease

Firstpost  

Nipah virus or, which was first identified during an outbreak in Kampung Sungai Nipah, Malaysia in 1998, is primarily a zoonotic disease carried by fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family Indian state of Kerala, which has seen a previous outbreak of Nipah virus in 2018 and stray cases going back to as far as 2001, has again reported a case …

WHO-China study on COVID-19 origin says transmission from bats to humans via another animal 'very likely'
3 years, 8 months ago

WHO-China study on COVID-19 origin says transmission from bats to humans via another animal 'very likely'

ABC  

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario. Key points: The Associated Press says it has obtained a draft copy of the report that outlines the study's findings Overall, the findings are largely as expected and left many questions unanswered The …

Wildlife farms in southern China likely source of Covid pandemic, WHO expert says
3 years, 9 months ago

Wildlife farms in southern China likely source of Covid pandemic, WHO expert says

India Today  

An expert at the World Health Organisation rejected the possibility that Covid-19 emerged in a lab and claimed that wildlife farms in China are likely the source of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Peter Daszak, a member of the WHO team that travelled to China to probe the origin of Covid-19, told an American news agency that the officials found new …

Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China
3 years, 9 months ago

Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China

India TV News  

During the search for the origin of the novel coronavirus, an international team of scientists has found 24 previously unknown bat coronaviruses, with four of them related to the strain that causes COVID-19, within a 4 km radius in southwestern China. One virus carried 'a genomic backbone arguably the closest to SARS-CoV-2 identified to date, but none appeared to be …

The Hindu Explains | What has the WHO team’s field visit to China thrown up regarding the spread of SARS-CoV-2?
3 years, 10 months ago

The Hindu Explains | What has the WHO team’s field visit to China thrown up regarding the spread of SARS-CoV-2?

The Hindu  

The story so far: After several months of delay, concerns over access, and bickering between China and the U.S., a 17-member team from the World Health Organisation began a field visit on January 29, 2021, to unearth the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has so far spread to over 108 million people and killed nearly 2.4 million people across …

Origin and spread: The Hindu Editorial on identifying the source of SARS-CoV-2
3 years, 10 months ago

Origin and spread: The Hindu Editorial on identifying the source of SARS-CoV-2

The Hindu  

By concluding that a virus leak from a laboratory in China’s Wuhan, where the SARS-CoV-2 virus first emerged, is “extremely unlikely” and did not require further study, a 17-member WHO team and its Chinese counterparts have put to rest conspiracy theories that emerged early during the pandemic. While many scientists had dismissed the lab-origin theory, in mid-February 2020, a group …

Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab, most likely jumped to human via intermediary species: WHO
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab, most likely jumped to human via intermediary species: WHO

India Today  

A World Health Organisation expert said Tuesday the coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most probably jumped to humans via an intermediary species. WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek made the assessment in a summation of a WHO team's investigation into the possible origins of the coronavirus in the central Chinese …

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab at centre of speculation
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan virus lab at centre of speculation

The Hindu  

World Health Organisation investigators on Wednesday visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues. Uniformed and plainclothes security guards stood watch along the facility’s gated front entrance, but there …

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