In China, nearly three years after the COVID pandemic broke out, 35 people have fallen ill with a new virus. According to scientists, it is too early to determine if the virus spreads among humans and if it is deadly.
The newly-identified virus is the Langya henipavirus – or LayV – that belongs to a family of viruses “known to infect humans and cause fatal disease,” as reported in a peer-reviewed study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Another virus in this family is the Nipah virus, which spreads from pigs and is fatal for up to 75% of those infected.