The Evening Runway with Hongbin Jeong and Chua Tian Tian (4pm - 7pm)ST: The Big Story, 10 August - A new virus has emerged in China and infected 35 people there
A new virus, which can be transmitted to humans from animals, has infected 35 people in Shandong and Henan provinces.
That’s according to a study by scientists from China, Singapore and Australia published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
So far, there has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission.
The Henipavirus (also called Langya henipavirus or LayV) was first detected in late 2018 but was formally identified by scientists only last week.
In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke with Dr Zhu Feng, a research fellow from the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School about the study.
