Michelle Roberts*1 “Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China” https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704
Agence France-Presse “New swine flu with pandemic potential identified by China researchers” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/new-swine-flu-with-pandemic-potential-identified-by-china-researchers
中国の研究者たちが「パンデミックになる潜在的可能性」を持ったインフルエンザ・ウィルスを発見した*2。G4 EA H1N1と呼ばれるそのウィルスは2009年に流行した新型インフルエンザ(豚インフルエンザ)*3に類似ている。既に養豚従事者の感染が確認されているが、確認されているのは豚→人間の感染のみで、人間同士の感染はまだ確認されていない。
*1:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180712/1531371800
*2:Honglei Sun, Yihong Xiao, Jiyu Liu, Dayan Wang, Fangtao Li, Chenxi Wang, Chong Li, Junda Zhu, Jingwei Song, Haoran Sun, Zhimin Jiang, Litao Liu, Xin Zhang, Kai Wei, Dongjun Hou, Juan Pu, Yipeng Sun, Qi Tong, Yuhai Bi, Kin-Chow Chang, Sidang Liu, George F. Gao, and Jinhua Liu “Prevalent Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus with 2009 pandemic viral genes facilitating human infection” https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/23/1921186117
*3:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20090511/1242037912 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20090512/1242103237 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20090519/1242706111 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20090520/1242776117 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20090521/1242870511 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20090526/1243304722 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20090610/1244594910 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20091129/1259466366 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20091211/1260501239 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20100823/1282530841 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170228/1488253654 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/01/31/010653 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/02/01/034254