Tag: zoonotic
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Is Chlamydia killing you from the inside out?
When you think of Chlamydia you usually think of the human sexually transmitted disease. Well, other types of Chlamydia can infect humans and animals, which are not sexually transmitted. Chlamydia psittaci is one such bug that mainly infects poultry where it causes respiratory and digestive tract infections. In other animals, like cattle and sheep, it…
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Another Novel Zoonotic Virus: The Langya henipavirus!
Picture source: CDC Recent reports from the eastern region of China in the New England Journal of Medicine mentioned 35 patients showing feverish symptoms, infected with a novel zoonotic virus (virus of animal origin that can infect humans). The virus, Langya henipavirus (LayV), was named after the town “Langya“ where the first patient infected with…
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