Don’t Panic Over ‘New’ Swine Flu Pandemic Potential, Experts Say

The flu strain called G4 may or may not evolve into something dangerous

Don’t panic over the “new” swine flu you’ve been reading about. Last week, researchers published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences detailing a newly identified swine flu strain in China. The virus is similar to H1N1, the type of influenza virus that emerged in 2009 and caused a flu pandemic. That, of course, sounds scary, because what the world doesn’t need now is a pandemic…