First, it was Covid-19…
then it was Monkeypox…
Now it is…Langya
A new virus that can jump from animals to humans has been detected in China with 35 people already infected, according to Taiwan’s Centres for Disease Control (CDC).
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So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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