Re: H5N1 - Sept1mb34 28, Indonesia



Clint wrote:

That makes sense strategically but is that always a predictor of the
swap?

A disease that kills it's host too quickly reduces the number of new hosts it can infect. It could become less lethal through gene swapping, but it can also become less lethal through genetic drift.


The gene swapping route is probably the faster of the two.
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