New Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China

New Virus Found in Chinese Pigs

• This flu virus can spread from animals to humans

• All elements in this virus of the global epidemic

• Published a research by Chinese researchers in PNAS

The whole world, including India, has not yet recovered from the infection caused by the Chinese-born Corona virus, that a new virus has been identified in the pigs of China. This deadly virus could be the new Swine Flu with global epidemic potential.  This virus can infect humans more.  At present, it is not a threat to humans, but ignoring this danger can also be very fatal.  A research by Chinese researchers has been published in the US General 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (PNAS).  According to this, a flu virus has been found in pigs of China between 2011 and 2018.  This H1N1 (virus of swine flu) has been found to be a different type of deadly strain 'G4'. This virus has all the elements of a global pandemic.

Epidemiologist Eric Fizz Ding of Howard University in the US has tweeted that the virus has just been found in pigs.  The flu caused by this new virus can be caused by exposure to solid particles hidden in the gas and liquid microscopic droplets.  This infection occurs on the lines of the novel corona.  Symptoms include sneezing, wheezing and rapid weight loss, which reduces body mass by 7.3 to 9.8 percent. At present, the infection of the virus in pigs has spread rapidly and the conditions can be serious as soon as humans are affected.  He said that the infection of this new virus has been seen first in a 46-year-old man in 2016 and a nine-year-old boy in 2019.  Both these people had pig farms near their homes.  Therefore, this infection can spread from pigs to humans and can range from acute infection to death of the patient.  During the research, infection of the changed form of this virus has also been observed in the blood of those working in China's 'pig farm'.

Researchers have carefully observed the effect of this virus on humans.  Especially in-depth study on the employees of Pig Farm.  Research has said that there is a possibility of infecting humans through this species of animal.  Especially in dense areas of China, its infection can spread very fast.  Here the spread of this virus in the fields and breeding of animals is very likely.  However, the spread of this infection is possible only when there are some genetic changes before the 'G4' virus spreads to people.  It is noteworthy that the current global infection, the novel corona virus, was spread in the world by bats of the species named Harshu from Wuhan, the southwestern region of China.  The pandemic spread from Wuhan's seafood market to humans, and seven months after that, it has neither been controlled nor found a cure.