Yan-Jun Kang

TL;DR: RNA sequencing of 70 arthropod species revealed that arthropods contain viruses that fall basal to major virus groups, including the vertebrate-specific arenaviruses, filoviruse, hantavirus, influenza viruses, lyssavirusing, and paramyxoviruses.

TL;DR: This work discovered a previously unidentified segmented RNA virus of ticks that, uniquely, contained two segments derived from an unsegmented flavivirus, as well as two highly divergent segments of unknown origin.

TL;DR: Huaiyangshan virus (HYSV) has been reported to cause haemorrhagic fever-like disease in mice and rats as discussed by the authors, but no animal experiments have been performed to study its pathogenesis.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that HYSV can cause a lethal infection of both newborn mice and newborn rats with apparent pathological damage of the liver, and this animal model may help to understand the pathogenesis of the HysV infection in humans.

TL;DR: Serological and genetic analyses showed that Hantaan virus (HTNV) and Seoul virus (SEOV) co-circulated in rodents in Wuhan, and Phylogenetic analysis of the hantavirus sequences revealed that a novel genetic lineage of HTNV is present in rodent in W Uhan.