It possesses “all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans,” say the authors, scientists at Chinese universities and China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The majority were of a new kind which has been dominant among pigs since 2016.
G4 was observed to be highly infectious, replicating in human cells and causing more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses. According to blood tests which showed up antibodies created by exposure to the virus, 10.4 percent of swine workers had already been infected.
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