Caged animals in Jatinegara Market. Source - Wolf Gordon Clifton / Animal People, Inc. CC SA 4.0. Scientists are keeping an eye on a new virus that appears to have been transmitted from animals to humans in China and causes symptoms similar to COVID-19 or the flu. The virus has been dubbed the Langya henipavirus, according to CNN News. Scientists claim the virus has infected about three dozen farmers and other residents and is believed to have spread either directly or indirectly between people and shrews. Shrews are small, mole-like mammals found in a vast array of habitats, from ground-dwelling...