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Professor says no concerns about new virus emerging in China Dr Petros Caragianis, a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee and professor of microbiology/molecular virology at the University of Nicosia Medical School, said he had no concerns about the Langya virus that emerged in China and that it is not easily transmitted. He explained that it is transmitted from animals to humans, but that it is very difficult to transmit from humans to humans. An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Chinese and Singaporean scientists said the new virus was discovered in eastern China’s Shandong province...
