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- noun Plural form of
reassortment .
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Fortunately, back then the North Carolina agriculture department introduced new diagnostic tests that were advanced enough to identify emerging "reassortments" of novel viruses mixing human and animal components.
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Fortunately, back then the North Carolina agriculture department introduced new diagnostic tests that were advanced enough to identify emerging "reassortments" of novel viruses mixing human and animal components.
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Fortunately, back then the North Carolina agriculture department introduced new diagnostic tests that were advanced enough to identify emerging "reassortments" of novel viruses mixing human and animal components.
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
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Fortunately, back then the North Carolina agriculture department introduced new diagnostic tests that were advanced enough to identify emerging "reassortments" of novel viruses mixing human and animal components.
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Fortunately, back then the North Carolina agriculture department introduced new diagnostic tests that were advanced enough to identify emerging "reassortments" of novel viruses mixing human and animal components.
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Fortunately, back then the North Carolina agriculture department introduced new diagnostic tests that were advanced enough to identify emerging "reassortments" of novel viruses mixing human and animal components.
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New influenza viruses are often generated by mixing of genetic material from existing influenza viruses, known as "reassortments".
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"We don't know how often these reassortments occur in nature - probably more than we want to realize," agreed Dr. Newton MacCormack, chief of communicable disease control at the NC health department.
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There could be mutations or reassortments occur with the virus, meaning it changes, so that even the clinical picture would change over time.
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And that potential for an infection right now, that is not efficiently being spread from birds to humans in Asia, nor efficiently from human to human, by mutations or recombinations or reassortments of these viruses, can actually acquire, usually gradually, the ability to do that.
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