New Strain of Flu Found in China Has Potential to Become Pandemic, Scientists Warn
Can we just get through 2020? After word that we haven’t even seen the worst of the coronavirus yet, comes word that yet another pandemic could be on the way. Scientists have identified a new strain of flu carried by pigs in China that they say has the potential to become a pandemic. It’s a new strain of “swine flu” that emerged in 2009. “G4 EA H1N1,” is the name of it and it has “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus.” They are getting concerned about the rate of infection of said flu saying
“Controlling the prevailing G4 EA H1N1 viruses in pigs and close monitoring in human populations, especially the workers in swine industry, should be urgently implemented,” they wrote.
“Pigs are intermediate hosts for the generation of pandemic influenza virus. Thus, systematic surveillance of influenza viruses in pigs is a key measure for prewarning the emergence of the next pandemic influenza.”
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