For turkey farmer Erica Sawatzke, Thanksgiving was going terribly. It was 2023, and while others were eating their turkey dinners, Sawatzke felt a pit growing in her stomach as her ...

It is part of the Orthomyxoviridae family, known for its rapid mutations and ability to undergo genetic reassortment. "While initially transmitted from pigs to humans, modern strains now spread ...

The first known case of bird flu in a sheep anywhere in the world has been found on a Yorkshire farm. The case was identified ...

Then the worry is reassortment,” said Liu. Reassortment happens when more than one virus infects the same cell and the ...

Here, American- and European-origin viruses exchanged genetic material through reassortment to create an entirely new pathogen with a hitherto unseen combination of segments that helped the virus jump ...

The situation is further complicated by genetic sequencing of the D1.1 viruses ... 2023 to reduce viral circulation and prevent strain reassortment. So far, France has reported only 15 outbreaks ...

“This could happen, for example, because of two influenza variants exchanging genetic material with each other while in an animal host, a process known as reassortment,” he explained.