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Posted On: 09/25/2020 8:09:35 PM
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Does anyone know the status of GNBT's swine flu discussion with Chinese CDC? Is it still going? Thanks!
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/937422
According to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, pigs in China are increasingly becoming infected with an influenza virus dubbed G4. The virus is said to be a hybrid of strains found in European and Asian birds: the H1N1 strain that caused the 2009 pandemic, and a North American H1N1 strain that has genes from avian, human, and pig influenza viruses. The PNAS study states that 10.4% of "swine workers" had tested positive for G4.
In light of the information about the new swine flu, Mermel said, work on a universal influenza vaccine should be accelerated.
"A worst-case scenario would be if this started spreading in the fall, at the time when we're concerned about COVID-19," he said. "We've got to get a universal flu vaccine before this virus, which is locked and loaded and ready to go, spreads from Chinese pig farmers to other parts of Eurasia and other parts of the world."
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/937422
According to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, pigs in China are increasingly becoming infected with an influenza virus dubbed G4. The virus is said to be a hybrid of strains found in European and Asian birds: the H1N1 strain that caused the 2009 pandemic, and a North American H1N1 strain that has genes from avian, human, and pig influenza viruses. The PNAS study states that 10.4% of "swine workers" had tested positive for G4.
In light of the information about the new swine flu, Mermel said, work on a universal influenza vaccine should be accelerated.
"A worst-case scenario would be if this started spreading in the fall, at the time when we're concerned about COVID-19," he said. "We've got to get a universal flu vaccine before this virus, which is locked and loaded and ready to go, spreads from Chinese pig farmers to other parts of Eurasia and other parts of the world."
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