WASHINGTON, June 30 — Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published yesterday in the US science journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009. It...
Local animal husbandry workers inject a pig to collect blood sample at a pig farm in Zhangye, Gansu province, China October 28, 2019. — Reuters pic
G4 was observed to be highly infectious, replicating in human cells and causing more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses. The tests showed that as many as 4.4 per cent of the general population also appeared to have been exposed.
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