The World Health Organization (WHO) will carefully study a study by Chinese scientists, according to which a new strain of swine flu - G4 - could lead to a pandemic, WHO representative Christian Lindmeier said at a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday..

“We will carefully read the work in order to understand what is new in it,” Western media quoted him as saying..

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Earlier in the American journal PNAS, the work of scientists from Chinese universities and the Center for the Prevention and Control of Diseases in China on the G4 swine flu strain was published.

The researchers found that G4 has "

Also, when passing tests for the presence of appropriate antibodies in pig farms, it was found that more than 10% were infected with G4. It is estimated that only 4.4% of people may be exposed to the virus..

Although the virus can be transmitted from animal to person, and there is no evidence of transmission from person to person yet, scientists fear that the virus may eventually adapt to humans and begin to be transmitted between people.

and this H1N1 virus, from which G4 originates, caused a pandemic in 2009.

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