Another tool in an influenza virus’s kit is something known as reassortment. A flu virus’s genetic material is made up of eight RNA segments. When multiple viruses infect the same cell and ...

Researchers identified a novel genotype (D1.1) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 spreading among wild birds, poultry, ...

When two or more strains of a virus infect the same person, they can exchange genetic material and create new, more dangerous variants of a disease through a process called reassortment.

That scenario is caused by “reassortment,” the exchange of genetic material when hosts are infected with multiple versions of a virus. The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant ...

The risk of what is called genetic reassortment – when multiple viruses coinfect a cell and replicate to create a new virus – is “theoretical,” Shah said, but “because we know that it ...

Scientists suspect the H5N9 strain emerged through reassortment—an unpredictable genetic mixing of flu viruses within co-infected hosts. This discovery is significant because reassortment events ...

This latter process is known as genetic reassortment, and it usually happens when an organism is infected with at least two different viruses at the same time. Some experts suspect that H5N9 may ...

Because of its segmented pattern, the OROV genome is likely to undergo reassortment and recombination events. The study identified 21 reassortment events (including 17 S-M, 7 S-L, and 11 M-L ...

Scientists are particularly concerned about a process called "reassortment," The Washington Post reported, where different flu strains mix in infected animals, creating new versions of the virus.

This phenomenon, called reassortment, is what gave rise to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Because pigs can play this role, flu experts have been worried that the H5N1 virus currently spreading in cows in ...