Newly discovered swine flu strain has potential to cause another pandemic

Newly discovered swine flu strain has potential to cause another pandemic via TheCitizen_News

It would appear 2020 isn’t done with mankind just yet, with this newly discovered swine flu strain already having jumped from pigs to humans.

From 2011 to 2018, researchers took 30,000 nasal swabs from pigs in slaughterhouses in 10 Chinese provinces and in a veterinary hospital, allowing them to isolate 179 swine flu viruses.The new Swine flu strain is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009. Graphic Costa Mokola

G4 was observed to be highly infectious, replicating in human cells and causing more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses. Tests also showed that any immunity humans gain from exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4.

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