This finding came as a surprise since it was assumed that as a consequence of the evolutionary divergence between human and other animal viruses, the genes that code for LANA could not be switched. (sciencedaily.com)
Why is it that animal viruses seem to be responsible for virtually every modern plague — West Nile, Ebola, AIDS, SARS, and most recently, the frightening (but so far contained) outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia? (discovermagazine.com)
«Animal viruses typically have all genome segments packaged together into a single viral particle, so only one of those particles is needed to infect a host cell,» Ladner explained. (sciencedaily.com)