This is bad news. It suggests reassortment of circulating H5N1 viruses with viruses containing N9 NA.
Although this indicates reassortment with avian viruses, it's still bad. Reassortment makes pandemics. The last 3/4 flu pandemics (and likely 1918 too) were reassortant viruses.
Although this indicates reassortment with avian viruses, it's still bad. Reassortment makes pandemics. The last 3/4 flu pandemics (and likely 1918 too) were reassortant viruses.
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Matt Novak
1st U.S. case of H5N9 bird flu (different from H5N1) reported on California duck farm
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This leads to unpredictable new viruses.
We need to do more surveillance to limit opportunities for different viruses to reassort.
It's critical to keep H5N1 out of pigs.
And the quote in Italian so you can easily transalate.
“E infatti, già lo scorso ottobre, la ex capogruppo in Regione dei Verdi, Silvia Zamboni, aveva denunciato un focolare di aviaria registrato in un allevamento di suini”