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Ebola - A perspective you might need to hear.
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Anonymous Coward |
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Maybe a better way to ask is could two viruses exchange information?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35282601 Let this useful website help you with this concept [ link to www.nieman.harvard.edu] It may help to think of viruses not as single, fixed species but as a dynamic population of numerous variants that undergo selective pressure. When different populations can coexist in multiple susceptible mammalian hosts (humans, pigs, cats), there is an increased likelihood of mixing of genetic material in recombination events. Scientists are only beginning to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the selection process, including the change in the efficiency of human-to-human transmission, which is a major factor in turning an epidemic strain into a pandemic one.1
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