Chinese researchers discover new swine flu found in pigs that could pose major threat to humans
This May 8, 2019 file photo shows a farmer with his pigs at his farm in Jiangjiaqiao in China's Hebei province as China struggled to stamp out African swine fever in its vast pig herds.
From 2011 to 2018, researchers took 30,000 nasal swabs from pigs in slaughterhouses in 10 Chinese provinces and in a veterinary hospital, allowing them to isolate 179 swine flu viruses.The researchers then carried out various experiments including on ferrets, which are widely used in flu studies because they experience similar symptoms to humans – principally fever, coughing and sneezing.
Tests also showed that any immunity humans gain from exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4.According to blood tests that showed up antibodies created by exposure to the virus, 10.4 percent of swine workers had already been infected.The virus has, therefore, already passed from animals to humans but there is no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human – the scientists' main worry.
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