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).