Medical doctor, virologist Svetlana Protasova warned that the next deadly virus for a person could be a kind of bird flu, which will acquire human flu genes, which will allow infection to spread from person to person.
The expert explained that when two different fragments of the virus fall into one cage, their offspring can have a wide range of combinations of genes, including potentially fatal ones. Protasova emphasized that at present, there is no vaccine from bird flu, and the vaccine developed by the famous scientist Academician Ginzburg and his team is not yet ready.
According to the virologist, time plays a decisive role, since the viruses multiply and mutate rapidly, and the flu is able to develop into a destructive pandemic, as happened with Spanish influenza.
“In the influenza viruses, the genome is segmented, and consists of 8 fragments. And for these viruses “there is no greater joy” than to change genes with their brothers. If two viruses, for example, H1N1 and H3N2, then in their offspring will not be the same viruses, but H1N1, H3N2, H1N2, H3N1. That is, their “children” will have any combinations of genes. Because when the cells are made by the virus (the virus itself does nothing, it only leads), the genes will occupy them, figuratively express themselves, as passengers occupy minibuses per hour of peak. And with whom he was near, you will go with that, ”explains Protasova.
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