{"id":24298,"date":"2020-07-02T07:14:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=24298"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:14:30","slug":"g4-flu-virus-with-pandemic-potential-found-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/g4-flu-virus-with-pandemic-potential-found-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"G4 flu virus with pandemic potential found in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, scientists from China have identified an emerged strain of influenza virus that is infecting Chinese pigs and that has the potential of triggering a pandemic. Named G4, the swine flu strain has genes similar to those in the virus that caused the 2009 flu pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The scientists identified the virus through surveillance of influenza viruses in pigs that they carried out from 2011 to 2018 in ten provinces of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also found that the G4 strain has the capability of binding to human-type receptors (like, the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to ACE2 receptors in humans), was able to copy itself in human airway epithelial cells, and it showed effective infectivity and aerosol transmission in ferrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientists report that the new strain (G4) has descended from the H1N1 strain that was responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientists suggest that controlling the prevailing G4 Eurasian-Avian like (EA) H1N1 viruses in pigs and closely monitoring human populations, especially workers in the swine industry, should be \u201curgently implemented\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About swine flu pandemic 2009<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The WHO declared the outbreak of type A H1N1 influenza virus a pandemic in 2009 when there were around 30,000 cases globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines swine flu as, \u201ca respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that regularly cause outbreaks of influenza in pigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Influenza viruses that commonly circulate in swine are called \u201cswine influenza viruses\u201d or \u201cswine flu viruses\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like human influenza viruses, there are different sub-types and strains of swine influenza viruses\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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