When two or more strains of a virus infect the same person, they can exchange genetic material and create new, more dangerous variants of a disease through a process called reassortment.

genomes are readily shuffled in host cells that are infected with more than one flu virus. For example, when a cell is infected with influenza viruses from different species, reassortment can ...

Dr Angela Rasmussen, a virologist in Canada, warned: 'It does suggest there's enough [H5N1] virus around that reassortment might become more frequent. With enough H5 in these animals and enough ...

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In the past, researchers have proposed that the seasonal H1N1 virus that emerged after the pandemic did so as the result of reassortment, the shuffling of genes among multiple viruses infecting the ...

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