Daniel MacPhee 🥼🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦 on Nostr: Bird flu and evolution. “The more it spreads within mammals, that gives it more ...
Bird flu and evolution.
“The more it spreads within mammals, that gives it more chances to mutate. As it mutates, as it changes, there is a greater chance it can infect humans. If it gains the ability to spread efficiently from person to person, then it would be hard to stop,” says Nita Madhav, a former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher”
#H5N1 #Science #Scicomm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/h5n1-bird-flu-isnt-a-human-pandemic-yet/
“The more it spreads within mammals, that gives it more chances to mutate. As it mutates, as it changes, there is a greater chance it can infect humans. If it gains the ability to spread efficiently from person to person, then it would be hard to stop,” says Nita Madhav, a former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher”
#H5N1 #Science #Scicomm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/h5n1-bird-flu-isnt-a-human-pandemic-yet/