Cell Host Microbe


. 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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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.