Fauci Warns Of Potential Outbreak With New Virus Related To H1N1

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks to the press outside the White House on March 12, 2020. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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White House COVID-19 Task Force official Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday spoke of a new virus brewing in China that has the potential to trigger another pandemic.

During a Senate hearing with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield, Fauci told lawmakers that over the past week or so, Chinese scientists have identified the new virus in pigs with similar characteristics to the H1N1 virus.

“When they all mix up together and they contain some of the elements that might make them susceptible to being transmitted to humans, you always have the possibility that you might have another swine flu type of outbreak as we had in 2009,” the doctor said.

Fauci noted that that the virus, which has been dubbed “G-4,” is “still in the stage of examination.”

“It’s not so-called an immediate threat where you’re seeing infections, but it’s something we need to keep our eye out on just the way we did in 2009 with the emergence of the swine flu,” he said.

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  1. Where’s the optimism? Throw Rand Paul a bone! Where’s the love?

  2. Unleash the locusts…
    And we’re long overdue for an asteroid strike…

  3. Avatar for tena tena says:

    I can’t face another one. I don’t want to know.

    has the motherfucker resigned yet?

  4. Is there a line you cross, on the other side of which it’s clear that you’ve entered the actual apocalypse, or is it more of a slow dawning sort of thing?

  5. it’s something we need to keep our eye out on just the way we did in 2009 with the emergence of the swine flu,” he said.

    As opposed to the way the Kockholster Klan has dealt with the coronavirus?

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