G4 strain has already infected 10% of industry’s workers in China but no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human
Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study in the US science journal PNAS, although experts said there is no imminent threat.
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”, said the authors, scientists at Chinese universities and China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the study published on Monday.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says new virus in China has traits of 2009 H1N1 and 1918 pandemic flu