Highlights:
- Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu which is capable of triggering a pandemic.
- The swine flu is named G4 and it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain which was responsible for the 2009 pandemic.
- G4 was observed to be highly infectious as it replicates human cells and causes more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses do.
Tags : China, swine, flu, pandemic, G4,
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