Discuss the factors that make Alaskan waters in the summertime an optimal place and time for new strains of influenza to arise by genetic re assortment. What do you think is the most interesting aspect of this situation?
Please answer questions individually. Question 1 In the section about viruses, our textbook discusses how new strains of flu arise via viral reassortment. This is also known as genetic re assortment. Read the following recent article from MIT News about tracking the spread of bird flu that discusses the impact of re assortment: http://news.mit.edu/2017/tracking-spread-bird-flu-alaska-north-america-0317. Next, […]
