Unusually, said the CDC’s Nancy Cox, the viruses all appear to carry
genes from swine flu, avian flu, and human flu viruses from North
America, Europe and Asia. “We haven’t seen this strain before, but we
hadn’t been looking as intensively as we have,” Schuchat said. “It’s
very possible that this is something new that hasn’t been happening
before.” Surveillance for and scrutiny of influenza has been stepped
up since 2003, when highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza reappeared
in Asia.<<<<
Those mixed genes are what scare me, I don’t like mixed diseases....
I wonder what the ramifications are for that.
If one doesn’t get you, the other will?
I suspect that being mixed like that might allow it easier access to the body or that unless you’re immune to all three, it can take hold for the strain you’re not immune to.