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Could dog flu be the next pandemic?

The H3N8 Dog influenza virus found in China is not a risk for humans at the moment

06-Jun-2018

Key points from article :

Influenza virus can jump from pigs to canines.

Viruses in dogs and horses have less viral genetic diversity.

5 years ago an avian flu virus was found in farmed dogs in China.

H1N1, H3N2, and H3N8 in dogs are starting to interact with each other.

Culling domestic dogs to prevent an outbreak would be an unpopular solution.

The study was published in mBio journal.

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Adolfo Garcia-Sastre

Director of the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

School for medical and scientific training.

mBio

Scientific journal covering all aspects of the microbiological sciences.

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Pandemics