Influenza is one of the world’s public health problems. At the moment, the world is still in the midst of a new corona pandemic, so in the fall and winter and winter and spring of this year, there may be a risk of a superimposed outbreak of influenza and the new corona virus.The 2022 World Flu Congress, co-sponsored by the Chinese Association of Preventive Medicine, the Asia-Pacific Influenza Control Alliance, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Academy Chinese Medical Sciences, will be held in Guangzhou, China on September 17-18。
Academic of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, former director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionGao FuHe said that when dealing with the new corona epidemic, we shouldn’t forget about the flu. The characteristics of the influenza virus and the new coronavirus are: the coronavirus is subject to genetic recombination and the influenza virus is subject to genetic reassortment. This means that the gene segments of the genome can be interchanged. In general, the influenza virus has 8 gene segments and each segment can have different origins and it is difficult to prevent and control the mutation too quickly. The coronavirus has only one sequence and this segment can be taken apart and replaced one by one. Recombination is very common and can also carry animal-derived coronavirus genes.
As influenza viruses and new coronaviruses are particularly prone to mutated respiratory infections, the influenza and new coronaviruses discussed today overlap and these two viruses will remain important pathogens that will cause the next global pandemic in the future. (Reporter: Pang Cong and Zhou Yuhan)
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