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Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China
https://www.bbc.co.uk ^
| 29 June 2020
| By Michelle Roberts
Posted on 06/29/2020 4:20:55 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists.
It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say.
The researchers are concerned that it could mutate further so that it can spread easily from person to person, and trigger a global outbreak.
While it is not an immediate problem, they say, it has "all the hallmarks" of being highly adapted to infect humans and needs close monitoring.
As it's new, people could have little or no immunity to the virus.
Pandemic threat A bad new strain of influenza is among the top disease threats that experts are watching for, even as the world attempts to bring to an end the current coronavirus pandemic.
The last pandemic flu the world encountered - the swine flu outbreak of 2009 that began in Mexico - was less deadly than initially feared, largely because many older people had some immunity to it, probably because of its similarity to other flu viruses that had circulated years before.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; flu; ha; shamdemic2
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To: RomanSoldier19
It’s contained in a biden commercial ....
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:23:02 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want Americva to fail and die)
To: RomanSoldier19
It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. A Flu of Swines?
Haven't we seen this before?
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:23:51 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
To: RomanSoldier19
How about absolutely no Chinese allowed on any flight to the US? Oh, that’s racist?
Too bad.
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:24:40 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: RomanSoldier19
Found in pigs?
Do the Chinese have any pigs left?
Last fall half of the sine in China died of African Swine Fever.
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:24:47 PM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
To: RomanSoldier19
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:25:39 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: BuffaloJack
Last fall half of the swine in China died of African Swine Fever.
They’ve lost a lot of chickens as well. Some are claiming it was a virus attack by the U.S. spread by mysterious drones.
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:29:46 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: RomanSoldier19
By definition, every flu season is a pandemic.
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:30:45 PM PDT
by
Theo
(FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
To: RomanSoldier19
Let me guess.... The lab in Wuhan “found” this too?
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:31:22 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
To: RomanSoldier19
Is it called, October Flu?
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:31:50 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
To: RomanSoldier19
Oh, goody! I’m putting in my pre-order for the new strain now and beat the Christmas rush!
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:32:28 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: RomanSoldier19
China’s bioweapons labs are working overtime.
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:32:57 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
To: RomanSoldier19
The first “planned-demic” isn’t going as well as they’d like. It’s time for them to send over a “better” planned-demic because the Deep State wants mail-in voting in time for the 2020 election!
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:34:23 PM PDT
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: RomanSoldier19
China and Africa seem to be the source of many virulent pathogens. They need to be quarantined.
To: CincyRichieRich
Close! It's called the October Fluprise!
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:34:46 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: CincyRichieRich
Is it called, October Flu?October Sooeyprize flu...
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:36:41 PM PDT
by
null and void
(It never ends when you go down that slippery slope of digging for the truth.)
To: BradyLS
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:38:55 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: RomanSoldier19
If all the pigs and chickens in China die we have a HUGE problem. Millions will starve, so we have that to look forward to. I’m starting to believe a Higher Power may be involved.
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:39:06 PM PDT
by
devane617
(Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
To: BuffaloJack
we sent them some of our healthy stock
looks like they are cocking it up again
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:39:28 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: RomanSoldier19
I’m really falling behind here. I haven’t had covid and not even the murder hornets yet. Hell, I’m a season behind on Better Call Saul. Society moves too fast for me.
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:40:57 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
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