A recent study published in PNAS provides evidence for the possibility of an increased pathogenicity after avian H5N1 and H3N2 influenza virus cocirculate. The resulting reassortants of the two stains of viruses cocirculating in mice were analyzed genetically and many showed features of both viruses, some of which had an increased pathogenicity.

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