A new swine flu virus, G4, is likely to be pandemicd.

Foreign media said Chinese researchers had discovered that the new swine flu virus could be pandemic, and we asked experts.
Yang Zhanqiu told reporters that for the G4 virus, we have to be vigilant, can not be taken lightly.
he also noted that it is not the flu virus season and that there is no need to worry too much about the virus.
Chinese scientists have discovered a new type of flu that could become a pandemic! Chinese researchers have discovered a new swine flu virus with the potential to cause a pandemic, according to a paper published June 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), AFP reported.
Researchers at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the China Agricultural University have tentatively named the new influenza virus, which has been circulating among domestic pigs since 2016, G4 EA H1N1, a virus that is highly adaptable to "all characteristics" of infected humans and needs close monitoring, the BBC reported.
AFP, the G4 virus appears to have evolved from the H1N1 strain that circulated in 2009.
the BBC also noted that the new strain of influenza found in China is similar to swine flu in 2009, but there are some new changes.
the researchers then conducted various experiments and found that the G4 virus was highly contagious and could be replicated by human cells,
AFP reported.
results also show that humanie immunisation from seasonal influenza is unable to fight the G4 virus.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE RESEARCH TEAM CONDUCTED BLOOD TESTS ON PIG FARM PRACTITIONERS AND FOUND THAT 10.4 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE HAD A HISTORY OF INFECTION.
in addition, tests of the general public also found that 4.4% of the population had a history of infection.
this means that the G4 virus already has the capacity to be transmitted from animals to humans, but there is no evidence that the virus has the potential to be transmitted from person to person. "The virus may be further adapted to humans, raising the risk of a pandemic among humans,"
researchers wrote in the paper.
" the authors called for greater medical monitoring of pig-breeding practitioners.
is a critical moment in the global battle against the new outbreak of pneumonia, and the news of the discovery of the new swine flu virus is no doubt adding to the almost tight nerves. Yang Zhanqiu, a professor at the Institute of Virus Studies at Wuhan University in
, told the Global Times-Global Network that the possibility of a worldwide pandemic caused by the g4 new swine flu virus mentioned in the report is possible, especially during the winter and spring pandemic season, "After the discovery of the A(H1N1) virus in the United States in 2009, WHO raised the global influenza pandemic warning level to 6."
if the G4 virus found this time is similar to the 2009 virus and contains fragments of human influenza genes, it could spread from person to person.
" Yang Zhanqiu told the Global Times-Global Network reporter, for the G4 virus, we have to be vigilant, not to be taken lightly.
he also noted that it is not the flu virus season and that there is no need to worry too much about the virus.
"the death rate from influenza A(H1N1) that was endemic in 2009 was about 1%, lower than that of new crown pneumonia.
," he said, "and the spread of influenza A(H1N1) is more limited than the new coronavirus, which was mainly concentrated in the United States and Mexico and did not cause much panic in other countries."
" pandemic refers to the rapid spread of a disease, involving a wide geographical area, large proportion of the population, in a short period of time can cross provincial boundaries and even continent boundaries to form a worldwide epidemic.
some infectious diseases, such as influenza, cholera and plague, have been largely epidemics in history.
, as a result of increasing international exchanges, the spread of epidemics worldwide has also been accelerating.
the World Health Organization monitors outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world and decides when to raise the response to the disease to the "epidemic" and "pandemic" level.
and the new coronavirus has been classified by WHO as a global pandemic following the outbreak of the worldwide outbreak, with more than 10 million confirmed infections and more than half a million deaths from the new coronavirus.
A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that could trigger a pandemic.
it is named G4, which is genetically a descendant of the H1N1 strain that caused the 2009 pandemic.
scientists at the China Agricultural University and the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention say it has "all the basic characteristics of highly adaptable to infecting humans."
from 2011 to 2018, researchers extracted 30,000 nasal swabs from pigs in slaughterhouses and a veterinary hospital in 10 provinces, separating them from 179 swine flu viruses.
most of them are new breeds that have dominated pigs since 2016.
the researchers then conducted various experiments, including ferrets.
ferrets are widely used in flu studies because they experience symptoms similar to those experienced in humans - mainly fever, coughing and sneezing.
G4 has been observed to be highly contagious, replicated in human cells, causing more severe symptoms than other viruses in ferrets.
trials have also shown that no immunity from exposure to seasonal influenza can prevent G4 infection.
Blood tests show that 10.4 percent of pig workers have been infected because of exposure to the virus to produce antibodies.
tests show that 4.4 per cent of the general population appears to be infected.
, the virus has been transmitted from animals to humans, but there is no evidence that it can be transmitted from person to person - something scientists are most worried about. "It is worrying that human infection with the G4 virus will further promote human adaptation and increase the risk of a human pandemic,"
the researchers wrote.
" the authors called for urgent measures to monitor people who work with pigs. James Wood, head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of
, said: "This work is a useful reminder that we are at a new risk of zoonotic pathogens, with humans coming into contact with farmed animals more than wild animals, which can be important sources of pandemic viruses.
"zoonotic infection is caused by a pathogen that jumps from non-human animals to humans.
Source: Global Times, Star Sand.