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Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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What Is This New Langya Virus? Do We Need to be Worried? Your Health

What Is This New Langya Virus? Do We Need to be Worried?

A new virus, Langya henipavirus, is suspected to have caused infections in 35 people in China’s Shandong and Henan provinces over roughly a two-year period to 2021. It’s related to Hendra and Nipah viruses, which cause disease in humans. However, there’s much we don’t know about the new virus – known as LayV for short […]

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