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Here we go again!<\/p>\n
First. we’re still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. While the infection and death rates are dropping in many states, in others where the distancing rules have been too loose too soon, the infection rates seem to be picking up a bit. Some of it is due to carelessness, some may be a bit of rebelliousness. Being restricted out of a need for caution is not necessarily something that more rebellious souls want to heed. It’s summer! I want to go to the beach! I’m tired of the mask and SD!\u00a0 – etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n
But now we have a new concern and we’re getting a warning ahead of time: swine flu is rearing its head already, and it’s coming from China – AGAIN!<\/p>\n
A new swine flu virus is in the G4 lot, which should not jump to humans, but has already been found in two human workers in China so far. It is G4 EA H1N1. Chinese government is looking into whether or not this will mutate into another pandemic before long.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2020-06-swine-flu-strain-china-poses.html<\/a><\/p>\n From the article:\u00a0\u00a0The work by the researchers is part of an ongoing initiative in China\u2014medical workers have been regularly testing domestic swine for viruses in the hope of catching a virus jumping to humans before it runs rampant. In their\u00a0paper<\/a>, the researchers focus on testing that occurred between the years 2011 to 2018\u2014a period during which 179 swine flu\u00a0strains<\/a>\u00a0were found, though the bulk of them were G4. They also found that the infection rate in swine has been rising dramatically since 2016, and G4 is now the most common strain found in Chinese pigs.<\/p>\n The researchers also found that the G4 strain included DNA from 2009’s H1N1 strain, which was behind the pandemic that year. And they found that G4 has jumped to humans\u2014two people with active infections were diagnosed and 10 percent of those known to be exposed to infected pigs had G4 antibodies<\/span>. The fear is that the G4 strain will continue to evolve to the point that it becomes able to jump from person to person, triggering an outbreak and a possible pandemic. – article<\/p>\n Before you go off with ‘oh, not another pandemic!’, swine and avian flu viruses are mostly harmless, but are sometimes tranmissible to Humans. The 1918 H1N1 flu, which is referred to as the Spanish flu, was an avian strain traced by CDC through its DNA to Chinese workers who had found their way to Spain before the start of World War I. They were apparently less affected by it than the Americans and Europeans who were newly exposed to it, and it was lethal to Westerners. The “Spanish flu” made two swaths of destruction through Europe\/UK and the USA\/Canada, and elsewhere, and then faded.<\/p>\n Ironically, when the 2018 flu season started, CDC could not determine its origins until they found tissue samples from 1918 that had been preserved.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/time.com\/5610878\/2018-2019-flu-season\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article: Most flu seasons start off with lots of infections from influenza A viruses, which can be more severe and less responsive to vaccination than other subtypes, while generally less-severe influenza B viruses often strike later. But this year, the CDC says, two different phases of influenza A activity dominated the season, contributing to its unusual length. H1N1 circulated widely from October to mid-February, then H3N2<\/span> picked up from mid-February into the spring, according to the new report.<\/p>\n Even still,\u00a0high early-season vaccination rates<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0relatively effective annual vaccine<\/a>\u00a0appeared to help suppress illnesses. In total, the CDC estimates that up to 42.9 million people got sick during the 2018-2019 flu season, 647,000 people were hospitalized and 61,200 died. That\u2019s fairly on par with a typical season, and well below the\u00a0CDC\u2019s 2017-2018 estimates<\/a> of 48.8 million illnesses, 959,000 hospitalizations and 79,400 deaths. – article<\/p>\nObviously, the 2018-2019 flu season was not nearly as bad as 1918, or remotely close to the current CV-19 pandemic, but it was still alarming because it spread so quickly.\u00a0 If you got the flu shots, you were probably unaffected by it. I won’t say this time it’s different, but if this does transmit to humans, the vaccine will have to be available ASAP to stop the spread. The CV19 vaccine is not working up as quickly as had been hoped.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThis is a warning. It is only a warning. It may come to nothing<\/span>, but the Chinese may have realized that we can yank all our manufacturing stuff home with no notice, if it means preventing another pandemic spread, and they don’t want to lose that cash cow.\u00a0 Not saying they are scrambling or anything like that, but it’s probably a good idea to not do stupid things.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"