Hey Guys,
This is a new column Iām making about society and civilization I called Dystopia.
So why would I write about this? Because I care about humanity. The Global Times and other outlets are claiming: A new type of animal-derived Henipavirus (also named Langya henipavirus, LayV) that can infect humans is found in Shandong Province and Henan Province, and has so far infected 35 people in the two provinces.
So we currently have now 3 pandemic circulating - Covid-19, monkeypox and Langya. This apparently is the culprit.
China has discovered a new, potentially fatal virus within its borders, which experts say could trigger yet another pandemic.
According to TMZ: The Langya Henipavirus, referred to as "Langya," has already infected 35 people, according to Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control ... it's in the same family as the Hendra virus and Nipah virus.
As usual the Taiwan CDC is one of the most astute in the coverage, via the Taipei Times. And how are these people not members of the WHO?
A study titled āA Zoonotic Henipavirus in Febrile Patients in Chinaā that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday said that a new henipavirus associated with a fever-causing human illness was identified in China.
(CNA) Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is paying close attention to the development of a novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) in China after reports of at least 35 infections there.
Did our buddy John on YouTube cover this? Weirdly he has not yet.
Potentially High Fatality Rate
Being under the Henipavirus umbrella, it has the potential to do some serious damage ... WHO data classifies Henipavirus with a 40-75% fatality rate.
The symptoms might look all too familiar -- fever, headache, cough, fatigue, etc.
With three pandemics it will be hard for healthcare to keep up realistically if all of these keep mutating and are endemic.
Covid, Monkeypox, and Langya - it really does sound like a āGreat Resetā, why all of this now?
Is the Global Times trying to be transparent? The new type of Henipavirus was found in throat swab samples from febrile patients in eastern China with a history of contact with animals in recent times, according to media reports.
Is this the Zoonotic Plague Bill Gates Was Warning About?
At present, no vaccine or treatment for Langya virus is available, and the only solution is supportive care to manage complications pertaining to the zoonotic disease.
Further investigation found that 26 out of 35 cases of Langya henipavirus infection in Shandong and Henan provinces have developed clinical symptoms such as fever, irritability, cough, anorexia, myalgia, nausea, headache and vomiting.
Test results from 25 wild animal species suggest that the shrew might be a natural reservoir of the Langya henipavirus, as the virus was found in 27 percent of the shrew subjects.
China has downplayed the risk but Taiwan sounds pretty concerned. As the Langya virus is a newly detected virus, Taiwanās laboratories will need to establish a standardized nucleic acid testing method to identify the virus, so that human infections could be monitored.
Henipavirus can cause severe disease in animals and humans and are classified as biosafety Level 4 viruses with case fatality rates between 40-75 percent, according to the data from World Health Organization (WHO), highlighting that this is much higher than the fatality rate of the coronavirus.
Henipavirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae, order Mononegavirales containing five species.
According to researchers, it is not yet known if the virus can be transmitted from human to human.
LayV belongs to the Paramyxoviride family, which, according to the article on NEJM, can "infect humans and cause fatal disease."
Diseases associated with this family include measles, mumps, and respiratory tract infections. The emergence of henipaviruses parallels the emergence of other zoonotic viruses in recent decades.
The cases of Langya henipavirus so far have not been fatal or very serious, so there is no need for panic, said Wang Linfa, a Professor in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School who was involved in the study. Iām glad to hear that.
The infected patients had a history of being in contact with animals but not with each other, as far as I can tell.
No significant spatial or temporal clustering of Langya henipavirus has been found till now, meaning that human-to-human transmission of the virus has not been proven, although previous reports seem to suggest (donāt quote me on this) that the virus can be transmitted from person to person.
Something I am following.