Sentences with phrase «human influenza swapped»
If bird flu and human influenza swapped genes, the results might not be as disastrous as some have expected
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The human influenza virus H1N1 that caused the 2009 flu pandemic, and H9N2, an avian influenza virus that is endemic in bird populations in Asia, are close cousins — close enough that they can swap genes if they find themselves in the same cell, resulting in new viruses that are a patchwork of the parent strains.