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Showing Original Post only (View all)Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China [View all]
Source: BBC
A bad new strain of influenza is among the top disease threats that experts are watching for, even as the world attempts to bring to an end the current coronavirus pandemic.
The last pandemic flu the world encountered - the swine flu outbreak of 2009 that began in Mexico - was less deadly than initially feared, largely because many older people had some immunity to it, probably because of its similarity to other flu viruses that had circulated years before.
That virus, called A/H1N1pdm09, is now covered by the annual flu vaccine to make sure people are protected.
The new flu strain that has been identified in China is similar to 2009 swine flu, but with some new changes.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704
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Trump ended program to detect potential pandemic-causing viruses before they spread
TomCADem
Jun 2020
#28
I wonder what would happen it they started giving the animals the drugs like they do over here?
LiberalArkie
Jun 2020
#2
We go through the flu every year that starts from the animals. There is a reason a long time ago
LiberalArkie
Jun 2020
#14
It used to be that calves were given antibiotics because they made them grow faster
csziggy
Jun 2020
#26
I've been expecting a RW mantra, "this is a once in 100 years event" to head off big changes
brewens
Jun 2020
#3
1789 in France is an example of what can potentially happen to the 1% if they keep
cstanleytech
Jun 2020
#9
Covid 19, new swine flu and regular flu. I'll be in my basement, see you in May.
dem4decades
Jun 2020
#4
Assuming people continue to travel less than they used to internationally due to the current
cstanleytech
Jun 2020
#8
Hopefully the extra precautions taken for COVID 19 will make the flu season less
yellowdogintexas
Jun 2020
#23