Avian flu, swine flu and now dog flu? It wasn’t too long ago that these strains of the virus were making headlines and causing hundreds of thousands of fatalities across the world. Now, man’s best friend could unleash a new form of the flu.
According to a new study released this week by mBio, a journal published by the American Society for Microbiology, there could be a new pandemic of the deadly influenza virus, particularly Influenza A, transmitted by dogs and transferred to humans. Although typically caused by the virus that jumps from either a bird or pig and on to a human, they can also be transmitted to dogs before leaping to humans. As the report shows, these viruses can intermix and create new forms of the flu in the animal population that are unknown to human immune systems.
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