While the world is still trying to recover from the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, Chinese scientists are concerned that a new type of flu resembling the swine flu has the potential to turn into another global pandemic.
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Researchers are concerned that it could mutate further which means that it will spread from person to person easily and can trigger a global outbreak. Scientists at Chinese universities and China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention say that:
It possesses all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans”.
The majority of cases were of a new kind of virus which has been dominant among pigs since 2016.
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It is of concern that human infection of G4 virus will further human adaptation and increase the risk of a human pandemic.
The blood tests also showed that any immunity humans gain from the exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4. G4 was observed to be a highly infectious virus replicating in human cells and causing serious symptoms.