Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that can infect humans and has the potential to cause a future pandemic, according to a study released on Monday, though scientists have ...

CHINA (CNN) -- Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that can infect humans and has the potential to cause a future pandemic, according to a study released on Monday, though ...

Researchers say the virus is a blend of a similar strain found in European and Asian birds, the H1N1 strain that caused the 2009 pandemic and a North American H1N1. At least two cases of G4 infections ...

Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study published Monday in the U.S. scientific journal PNAS. Named G4, it is ...

In a new study, researchers identify an emergent swine flu virus spreading through China. They claim it has pandemic potential. The discovery calls for immediate animal and public health precautions ...

“Pandemic potential” or “pandemic-on-pandemic” are scary concepts these days and Chinese and British scientists are using those very terms to describe the threat from a new swine flu virus. Not to ...

A team of researchers in China has identified an emerging influenza virus that might pose a threat in a future flu season. But the new virus so far cannot jump from person to person, a key attribute ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday that the so-called "G4" strain of swine flu virus is not new and does not infect or sicken humans and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Chinese and British scientists have pinpointed a swine flu virus that shares characteristics with the 2009 H1N1 swine flu and the 1918 swine flu. Both killed millions worldwide.