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Jerry2144

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8. I hate that word

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:16 PM

Jan 2022

It makes pale think we have a new hybrid variant. What is really going on is a concurrent infection by the COVID virus and by an influenza virus. These two have not cross-bred. Yet.

But viruses are unusual chunks of genetic code in a fat ball (like 45, but tinier). Is it possible for genetic material to swap between completely unrelated families of viruses if they infect the same host cell?

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This, anyone who uses that misleading term should be ashamed Amishman Jan 2022 #10

It's not a mutation, it's two separate viruses existing simultaneously in the same host. Torchlight Jan 2022 #15

I hate that word Jerry2144 Jan 2022 #8

Flurona: Tomconroy Jan 2022 #11

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That's what I was thinking Just_Vote_Dem Jan 2022 #14