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A pandemic recipe in the making?
A pandemic recipe in the making?
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Hensley Lab
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
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It's almost like the messages that went out to limit infections so that we didn't drive further SAR-CoV-2 mutations, have been forgotten, at least amongst dairy herd workers, if no-one else?