{"id":18697,"date":"2020-07-10T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18697"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T00:10:23","slug":"new-strain-of-flu-found-in-china-has-potential-to-become-a-pandemic-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/new-strain-of-flu-found-in-china-has-potential-to-become-a-pandemic-scientists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"New strain of flu found in China has potential to become a pandemic, scientists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Holly Ellyatt<\/a> – June 30, 2020<\/p>\n

Scientists have identified a new strain of flu carried by pigs in China that they say has the potential to become a pandemic.<\/p>\n

The new strain is descended from the type of flu \u2014 known as \u201cswine flu\u201d \u2014 that emerged in 2009 causing the first global flu pandemic in 40 years.<\/p>\n

The scientists published their peer-reviewed findings in U.S. science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday. They said the new strain of flu, which they called \u201cG4 EA H1N1,\u201d is a variation of swine flu, and includes the \u201cG4\u2033 genotype that has become predominant in swine populations since 2016.<\/p>\n

As with swine flu, the new strain has been identified as having \u201call the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scientists, who studied flu viruses in pig populations between 2011 and 2018, noted that around 10% of swine industry workers they tested in China had already been exposed to the virus, which they described as \u201cof concern.\u201d That rate increased among younger workers, aged 18-35, \u201cindicating that the predominant G4 EA H1N1 virus has acquired increased human infectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch infectivity greatly enhances the opportunity for virus adaptation in humans and raises concerns for the possible generation of pandemic viruses,\u201d the scientists, who work at several Chinese universities and the country\u2019s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, noted.<\/p>\n

They recommended close monitoring of swine populations \u2014 and anyone working with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cControlling the prevailing G4 EA H1N1 viruses in pigs and close monitoring in human populations, especially the workers in swine industry, should be urgently implemented,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

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Holly Ellyatt – June 30, 2020 Scientists have identified a new strain of flu carried by pigs in China that they say has the potential to become a pandemic. The new strain is descended from the type of flu \u2014 known as \u201cswine flu\u201d \u2014 that emerged in 2009 causing the first global flu pandemic … Continue reading New strain of flu found in China has potential to become a pandemic, scientists warn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,22,23,15050,42,3680,823],"class_list":["post-18697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pale-horse","tag-disaster","tag-disease","tag-epidemic","tag-g4-ea-h1n1","tag-outbreak","tag-pandemic","tag-swine-flu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Rz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18700,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions\/18700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}