Dozens of cases of a new virus have been recorded so far.
Scientists identified the novel Langya henipaviruses (LayV) last week, after detecting it in the north-eastern provinces.
Taiwan has a health authority that is monitoring the spread of the virus. The researchers found LayV in more than 25% of the shrews they tested. In 2% of domestic goats and 5% of dogs, the virus was found.
Scientists from China, Singapore, and Australia wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine about their initial investigations into the virus.
The virus can cause symptoms such as fatigue, cough, and loss of appetite in humans. The people had a high temperature. It was suggested thatLayV was the cause of the illness in 26 people.
There have been no deaths so far. The co-author of the NEJM paper told the Global Times that the LayV cases had not been fatal or very serious so far and that there was no need for panic.
Researchers don't know if the virus can be spread between people. The majority of the cases were in farmers. Our sample size was too small to determine the status of human-to-human transmission, despite contact tracing showing no close-contact LayV transmission.
Scientists have determined that the LayV is a henipaviruses, a category of zoonoticRNA viruses that also includes Hendra virus and Nipah virus. The Hendra virus and the Nipah virus have both been associated with high mortality rates.
The Mojiang virus was found in southern China.
According to Taiwan's Central news agency, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control announced on Sunday that it would implement genome sequencing and other measures for the disease.
Chuang Jen-hsiang, deputy director general of the Taiwan CDC, told a press briefing that the agency was researching routes of transmission and would collaborate with the Council of Agriculture.
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