Agencies warn that combined infection with bird flu and human flu could lead to mutations of new viruses with dangerous public health consequences. This follows news of bird flu mutations in a Louisiana patient and a Canadian teenager, both experiencing severe symptoms. The CDC advises Americans, especially high-risk individuals like farmworkers, to get the flu vaccine this season to potentially reduce the risk of co-infection and subsequent new virus formation.
Combined infection with bird flu and human flu could lead to mutations of new viruses that could have dangerous public health consequences, agencies have warned.This is following the news that mutations of bird flu have occurred within a Louisiana patient and a teenager from Canada who both suffered with severe symptoms, potentially raising the risk of serious human infection among others.The U.S.
'When a flu virus infects a cell, its genetic material goes in as multiple different segments or pieces,' she explained in the video, posted November 18, 2024. 'When it wants to make a new virus, it loads the new virus up with one copy of each piece.'If by chance a bird flu virus and a human flu virus infected the same cell, it would load one copy of each piece, but it wouldn't be able to tell if those pieces had come from the bird virus or the human virus.
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