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PRO/AH/EDR> Influenza, porcine – China: Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus, pandemic potential
Influenza H1N1 -- ChinaTests on the most common type of influenza found in Chinese pigs reveal that it has the potential to transmit easily in humans, posing a pandemic threat similar to the virus that triggered a pandemic in 2009 after jumping from swine to people. A research team from China and Japan isolated 139 Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza viruses during surveillance in Chinese pigs from 2010 to 2013, then put the virus through its paces to assess its pandemic threat, including experiments Read more [...]
