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G4 EA H1N1

  • 13 Jul 2020

  • G4 EA H1N1, also known as the G4 swine flu virus is a swine influenza virus strain discovered in China.
  • The virus is a variant genotype 4 (G4) Eurasian avian-like (EA) H1N1 virus that mainly affects pigs, but there is some evidence of it infecting humans.
  • G4 EA H1N1 viruses possess all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans
  • Although there is no confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission.
  • The virus is related to the H1N1/09 strain responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and also distantly to the strain which caused the 1918 flu pandemic (both are H1N1 flu strains).