☝️ABOVE: Potential new swine flu pandemic & the barbaric Yulin dog meat festival has opened in defiance of supposed government restrictions in China. Allowing mass gathering in an unhygienic meat market is a public health risk. But, Chinese authorities have done nothing to stop the festival.
Holly Ellyatt | NBC NEWS
KEY POINTS
• The new strain has descended from the type of flu (“swine flu”) that emerged in 2009 causing the first global flu pandemic in 40 years.
• As with swine flu, however, the new strain has been identified as having “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus.”
• The new strain of flu should be monitored closely, scientists say.
