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Jezza 
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| Quote: | New swine flu with pandemic potential identified by China researchers
Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study in the US science journal PNAS.
Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009.
It possesses “all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to infect humans”, said the authors, scientists at Chinese universities and China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in the study published on Monday.
Between 2011 and 2018, researchers took 30,000 nasal swabs from pigs in slaughterhouses in 10 Chinese provinces and in a veterinary hospital, allowing them to isolate 179 swine flu viruses.
The majority were of a new kind that has been dominant among pigs since 2016.
The researchers then carried out various experiments – including on ferrets, which are widely used in flu studies because they experience similar symptoms to humans.
G4 was observed to be highly infectious, replicating in human cells and causing more serious symptoms in ferrets than other viruses do.
Tests also showed that any immunity humans gain from exposure to seasonal flu does not provide protection from G4.
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More than one in 10 swine workers had already been infected, according to antibody blood tests which showed exposure to the virus.
The tests also showed that as many as 4.4% of the general population also appeared to have been exposed.
The virus has therefore already passed from animals to humans but there is no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human – the scientists’ main worry.
“It is of concern that human infection of G4 virus will further human adaptation and increase the risk of a human pandemic,” the researchers wrote.
The authors called for urgent measures to monitor people working with pigs.
James Wood, head of the department of veterinary medicine at Cambridge University, said: “The work comes as a salutary reminder that we are constantly at risk of new emergence of zoonotic pathogens and that farmed animals – with which humans have greater contact than with wildlife – may act as the source for important pandemic viruses.”
A zoonotic infection is caused by a pathogen that has jumped from a non-human animal into a human. |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/new-swine-flu-with-pandemic-potential-identified-by-china-researchers
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I hope we point blank refuse to send them any pigs or pork products
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No, no no. Not another mega-thread. Please!
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Of course it's China AGAIN!
They are going to have to really ramp up the biosecurity searches at airports for all arriving passengers especially from Asia!
"Since we increased border checks we've been seizing 100 kilograms week in illegal pork products. Between 5 November 2018 and 31 August 2019, over 27 tonnes of pork were intercepted on air travellers entering Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-10-15/woman-deported-for-smuggling-uncooked-pork/11603336
And then there's all the other dodgy foods and seeds etc that people try to sneak in 
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| Tannin wrote: | | No, no no. Not another mega-thread. Please! |
Tell China to behave then
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| Morrigu wrote: | Of course it's China AGAIN!
They are going to have to really ramp up the biosecurity searches at airports for all arriving passengers especially from Asia!
"Since we increased border checks we've been seizing 100 kilograms week in illegal pork products. Between 5 November 2018 and 31 August 2019, over 27 tonnes of pork were intercepted on air travellers entering Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-10-15/woman-deported-for-smuggling-uncooked-pork/11603336
And then there's all the other dodgy foods and seeds etc that people try to sneak in |
I seriously don’t understand why they bother. Crazy
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^ I know 27 tonnes 27 in less than 12 months WTAF 
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Deport these idiots or have them locked up for being too stupid to be allowed out. What kind of imbecile thinks it would be OK to try to bring raw pork and eggs through customs in a suitcase?
HEY, PHUKTARD, You can buy pork and eggs in the supermarkets here.
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| think positive wrote: | | Tannin wrote: | | No, no no. Not another mega-thread. Please! |
Tell China to behave then |
I did! I did!
You tell them to bloody listen!
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| think positive wrote: | | inB4TrumpDidIt! |
Actually, he killed off the early warning program monitoring these diseases on the ground in China. Don't shoot the messenger - it's fact!
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| Tannin wrote: | | think positive wrote: | | Tannin wrote: | | No, no no. Not another mega-thread. Please! |
Tell China to behave then |
I did! I did!
You tell them to bloody listen! |
^ Well you need to try again and use your very best gruffy and stern “not happy Jan” voice 
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| stui magpie wrote: | ^
Deport these idiots or have them locked up for being too stupid to be allowed out. What kind of imbecile thinks it would be OK to try to bring raw pork and eggs through customs in a suitcase?
HEY, PHUKTARD, You can buy pork and eggs in the supermarkets here. |
It's been happening for the decades I've been flying. There has been zero improvement in cross-cultural awareness programs because to do so means someone in Australia would have to take responsibility for something, and give a toss, without making a quick buck off it.
To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
Is there anyone remaining in our entire culture willing to take responsibility for anything?
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stui magpie
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| pietillidie wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
Deport these idiots or have them locked up for being too stupid to be allowed out. What kind of imbecile thinks it would be OK to try to bring raw pork and eggs through customs in a suitcase?
HEY, PHUKTARD, You can buy pork and eggs in the supermarkets here. |
It's been happening for the decades I've been flying. There has been zero improvement in cross-cultural awareness programs because to do so means someone in Australia would have to take responsibility for something, and give a toss, without making a quick buck off it.
To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
Is there anyone remaining in our entire culture willing to take responsibility for anything? |
Explain to me why anyone in Australia is responsible for some farquit trying to smuggle in food they can legally buy here?
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| stui magpie wrote: | | pietillidie wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | ^
Deport these idiots or have them locked up for being too stupid to be allowed out. What kind of imbecile thinks it would be OK to try to bring raw pork and eggs through customs in a suitcase?
HEY, PHUKTARD, You can buy pork and eggs in the supermarkets here. |
It's been happening for the decades I've been flying. There has been zero improvement in cross-cultural awareness programs because to do so means someone in Australia would have to take responsibility for something, and give a toss, without making a quick buck off it.
To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"
Is there anyone remaining in our entire culture willing to take responsibility for anything? |
Explain to me why anyone in Australia is responsible for some farquit trying to smuggle in food they can legally buy here? |
Very, very basic intercultural knowledge.
Australia is the one responsible for properly communicating and/or enforcing its laws and requirements. How can it possibly be anyone else's fault? If you want to take the money, and you know tourists won't have the requisite background to grasp the importance of environmental law, or may not understand that laws are strictly applied in a literal sense, without negotiation, or may think that laws are rarely enforced and therefore must be unimportant, you've got to grasp the nettle and put together a proper outreach program. It's not rocket science.
This is just another case of taking the money without putting in the hard yards. You don't want to be subject to Chinese pressure? Then diversify your bloody industry and put mining in its place. You want income from Chinese tourists? Then put the work in to get the message across and enforce your laws properly.
It's always someone else's fault. Self-entitlement knows no bounds.
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