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Comment
. 2020 Oct 7;28(4):506-508.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.09.008.

Recipe for Zoonosis: How Influenza Virus Leaps into Human Circulation

Rebekah Honce  1 , Stacey Schultz-Cherry  2
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Recipe for Zoonosis: How Influenza Virus Leaps into Human Circulation

Rebekah Honce et al. Cell Host Microbe. .

Abstract

The features that permit or prevent a virus from becoming a zoonotic threat is an ongoing area of investigation. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Herfst et al. and Henritzi et al. help define the molecular and host determinants of influenza virus spillover from animal to human populations.

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A Recipe for Zoonosis Delineating the molecular and host restrictions that permit or prohibit viral spillover from wild, agricultural, and domestic animal species is crucial in understanding the true risk the vast number of viruses that circulate globally pose to humanity. Here, Henrizi et al. (2020) and Herfst et al. (2020) discuss the characteristics in swine and avian-origin viruses that potentially encode their pandemic potential.
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