Scientists have identified the features of the virus that will cause a pandemic.

News24xx.com - Scientists from the «School of Public Health» at the Johns Hopkins University published a report in which they named the traits that an infection would have that could cause massive loss of life.

One of the most deadly - "Spaniard" hit almost a third of the world's population, and its lethal rate was about 20%.

According to scientists, the new virus should be related to RNA viruses. Despite the fact that RNA is less stable than DNA, this allows the virus to mutate quickly and adapt to the drugs and immune system of living organisms. One of the brightest representatives of the ever-changing RNA viruses is a well-known flu. It was the impossibility of rapid mutation that prevented Ebola and Zek virus from causing a pandemic.

The virus will be transmitted by airborne droplets, and most importantly, it will infect new victims before the carrier of a virus will have the first symptoms. At first, the level of mortality will be low. Also, as scientists say, a virus can have the ability to "hibernate" inside our body, and this can be the main problem: after all, a person will be healthy outwardly, but he can be a "walking bomb" that at any moment will lead an epidemic to the new turn.