Kansas State University researchers monitor for next novel 1xbet sports betting strain
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
MANHATTAN — As seasonal 1xbet sports betting cases decrease across the United States, Kansas State University researchers are preparing for the next potential virulent strain of flu.
The work is starting with swine in the field. Juergen Richt, Regents distinguished professor of veterinary medicine and director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases, and Wenjun Ma, assistant professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, are surveying for swine 1xbet sports betting viruses as part of a million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
"Swine 1xbet sports betting are constantly changing," Richt said. "There's a constant mutational rate, and sometimes they're changing very rapidly using a mechanism called reassortment — gene segments from one 1xbet sports betting virus are mixed with gene segments from a different 1xbet sports betting virus. We are very concerned about these genes coming together to create new surface proteins that have not been seen in the human population."
The researchers are collecting samples from diseased pig populations recorded by the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the Abilene Animal Hospital. These samples are analyzed to determine if the swine 1xbet sports betting could be a danger to humans.
"Swine 1xbet sports betting viruses infect swine and cause a respiratory disease in pigs, but they sometimes have the ability to transmit from pigs to humans," Richt said. "We hope that we are early enough in discovering these novel swine 1xbet sports betting viruses so that we can isolate and characterize these viruses and alert the respective authorities to control and eradicate them as soon as possible."
The Kansas State University research team has been working on this project for six years. It previously discovered a novel 1xbet sports betting subtype in swine from Missouri. Richt says this novel H2N3 virus was created through a reassortment from a duck 1xbet sports betting virus and an endemic swine 1xbet sports betting virus, which could have been very dangerous to human health. As the team monitored the 1xbet sports betting , the virus died out before it could spread.
"I think it is very important work because 1xbet sports betting is a threat to public health and animal health. We are providing very important information for the industry and for public health," Ma said.
The project is part of the Center of Excellence for 1xbet sports betting Research and Surveillance and is in collaboration with Dr. Richard Webby in the infectious diseases department at St. Jude Children's Hospital.
