Ep. 181 Influenza Pt 2: The Piggies

<p>Last episode we discussed the current H5N1 flu that is hitting birds pretty hard. But is bird flu different from swine flu? Is there just a &#39;human flu&#39;, or do we only catch influenza from other animals? Let&#39;s get into the evolutionary history of the flu and primary hosts!</p> <p>References:</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328453/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328453/</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8611/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8611/</a></p> <p><a href="https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/JVI.01080-14">https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/JVI.01080-14</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm">https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268205/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268205/</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.woah.org/en/disease/avian-influenza/">https://www.woah.org/en/disease/avian-influenza/</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3784916/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3784916/</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2018.00131/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2018.00131/full</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1176225">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1176225</a></p> <p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32967956/">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32967956/</a> </p>