Child hospitalised abroad as bird flu cases climb - Cambodia’s Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country’s twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year ...

Cambodia's Ministry of Health recently confirmed the country's twelfth human case of H5N1 avian influenza so far this year.

The researchers found that the severe influenza epidemics of 1947 and 1951 were caused by genetic reassortment events in which two human influenza viruses of the same H1N1 strain exchanged ...

Reassortment has happened with other influenza viruses. In 2009 , H1N1 – which Shah described as “a close cousin” of H5N1 – was thought to have emerged because of genetic reassortment of ...

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment that could trigger human outbreaks. January 28, 2025. 3 min.

Some experts suspect that H5N9 may have emerged among the ducks in California due to genetic reassortment occurring between circulating H5N1 viruses and other flu viruses containing the N9 protein.

The blending of these viral genes, called genetic reassortment, is more common than you might think. Any virus whose genetic material is made of RNA, such as influenza and the novel coronavirus ...

However, were there to be genetic reassortment between H5N1 and a human seasonal flu, that could be a problem. Such a combination might provide the bird flu with the equipment it needs to pass ...