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Episode 128 - Zoonotics and H5N1

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Is It a Virus That's Going From Birds to Mammals?

The actual probability of any one virus mutating and being able to go from birds to mammals is so low. But when we're talking about millions of birds now being infected, it gives it that chance to change. The reassortment that you talked about, they call that kind of like a shortcut for evolution of these viruses.

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