Langya Henipavirus: A New Emerging Threat?
The world is tired, stressed, and suffering from the last global pandemic, the Covid-19 virus. For much of 2020 and through 2022, the entire world was in a state of lockdowns, travel bans, business closures, supply hoarding, homelessness, and rattled economies. Disputes between mandatory mask wearing, testing, vaccination, and social distancing tested the resolve of civilizations. Finally, we are past that stage and into the recovery stage, while some countries are ‘living’ with Covid-19, other countries are still imposing strict quarantine procedures, like China, where the Covid-19 virus originated. But what if this whole ordeal, albeit a crushing ordeal, was a setup for what is to come next? What if I were to tell you that we, as Earthlings, face another possible pandemic? We are not talking about Monkeypox or a resurgence of Polio. No, these two germs already have vaccines and treatments in place. The looming threat is something…