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Chinese Scientists Reportedly Discover A New Swine Flu Capable Of Triggering A Pandemic

 

Researchers in China
have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a
pandemic, according to a study published on Monday in the US science
journal PNAS.

Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009.

It
possesses “all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to
infect humans”, say the authors, scientists at Chinese universities and
China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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 majority were of a new kind which has been dominant among pigs since 2016.

The
researchers then carried out various experiments including on ferrets,
which are widely used in flu studies because they experience similar
symptoms to humans – principally fever, coughing and sneezing.

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.

According
to blood tests which showed up antibodies created by exposure to the
virus, 10.4 per cent of swine workers had already been infected.

The tests showed that as many as 4.4 per cent of the general population also appeared to have been exposed.

The
virus has therefore already passed from animals to humans but there is
no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human – the
scientists’ main worry.

“It is of concern that human infection of
G4 virus will further human adaptation and increase the risk of a human
pandemic,” the researchers wrote.

The authors called for urgent measures to monitor people working with pigs.

“The
work comes as a salutary reminder that we are constantly at risk of new
emergence of zoonotic pathogens and that farmed animals, with which
humans have greater contact than with wildlife, may act as the source
for important pandemic viruses,” said James Wood, head of the department
of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University.

A zoonotic infection is caused by a pathogen that has jumped from a non-human animal into a human

From yahoo news…

*They have started oh…..

This Pig sef i just feel
it is bad to eat the meat because of what happened to those pigs in the
Bible………A pig should not be eaten!!!

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