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Bat Flu

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THE bAT FLU

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may not grow or replicate in humans and would need to undergo significant changes to become capable of infecting and spreading easily among humans.

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THAT MEANS ITS NOT

SUPER DANGEROUS TO HUMANS
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THEY ORIGINALLY THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY FOUND IN

THEN YELLOW SHOULDERED BAT
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BUT FOUND IT IN OTHER BATS

AS WELL
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The discovery of bat flu is important for public health because bats represent a new animal species that may act as a source of flu viruses

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The discovery of bat flu has shed light on the evolution of flu A, B and C viruses. It is possible that many of the internal genes of bat influenza viruses are descendants of families of flu viruses that once circulated more widely in previous centuries and that are now extinct – or yet to be discovered.

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The bat flu viruses discovered in Central and South America are very different from other flu viruses in humans and animals. All flu A viruses have hemagglutinin (HA) surface proteins, and until the discovery of these viruses, there were only 16 different classes (or “subtypes”) of HA proteins known to exist in nature.

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