Posted on 06/30/2020 8:04:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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 the Chinese Centre 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.
Most were of a new kind that 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 – mainly 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 gained from exposure to seasonal flu did not provide protection from G4.
According to blood tests that 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.
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It’s always something.
Darn!!
Who had Swine Flu for July??
Unfortunately, I picked Meth Gators...
Gezundheit!
China, you already gave us the “gift” of a Chinese Wuhan Virus that endangered and killed Americans and destroyed our economy at least for now. You don’t need to give us another one.
We could regift the new virus to the CNN, MSNBC, NYT types and Dems who refuse to criticize their Chines masters for the virus.
Meanwhile no Chinese allowed to enter the US from any plane or other method. At all.
China, pandemic cesspool, for real?
The dems are trying to fill the country with a permanent underclass of dem voters; meanwhile the Chinese are creating an unoccupied land to store poor chinese farm laborers
This outbreak will be better controlled by the ChiComs and will only be allowed to spread after Labor Day ...
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Another article from yesterday if anyone cares to scan thru
the comments.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3860438/posts
Flu virus with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China
“China” “10 provinces” “since 2016”
No actual location. This is a setup.
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What’s a million Chinese?
Is this a threat? New nuclear warhead with China’s name on it discovered on sub somewhere in the Pacific.
When is China going to answer for the first virus? I see the media aren’t blaming them...
Are we seeing a pattern here?
"They're not sending their best."
—Donald J. Trump
Should be easy to make this part of the annual flu vaccine like the previous H1N1, though...they are already know how to make vaccines for influenza viruses.
Sorry, China, but you are like the boy who cried virus at this point.
The media is grasping at straws to maintain the fear and loathing created by leftist states throughout the globe and by Democrats in the US.
50 million died during the Spanish Flu... That was a pandemic. Covid-19 was a worse than normal flu season that to date has killed 500,000+ worldwide and less are succumbing everyday, even as the numbers being diagnosed go up.
The economy has been destroyed by this hysteria of a few scientist and the World Health Organization, a staunch support arm of the phony cult science of the Global Warming. They couldn’t wait for global warming acceptance to catch on to create more taxes and destroy the middle classes, so they latched on to this nonsense.
Mission accomplished!
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