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Short answer:
The type of flu virus mutations that are caused by a process called "reassortant", for example in the 2009 pandemic H1N1 Swine Flu, are made when a "middle man" animal, such as a pig in this example, has a cell that is infected with one type of flu and then at the same time another type of flu comes along and enters the cell. When together inside the cell, the genetic materials from the two types of flu can intermingle and a new mutation is formed with properties of both. There can be a "triple reassortant" where the cell is infected with three types of flu viruses that intermingle. Now all three types of animals can get the new kind of flu virus since it carries genetic material from all three.
Long answer:
See the related question below about what caused the 2009 swine flu for a more in depth explanation of this process.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe animals that can get swine flu (A-H1N1/09), such as hogs, dogs, turkeys, etc. get it the same way as humans. They either get it directly from another infected person or animal or by touching a place an infected organism touched or sneezed, coughed, or left viruses upon.
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∙ 14y agoTransmission of the Swine Flu Virus Swine flu is a highly contagious disease and can directly transmit from an infected human to a healthy person. The human-to-human transmission of the swine flu virus occurs through air. When a swine flu infected person coughs or sneezes without covering his/her mouth and nose, the virus containing bodily fluid in the form of respiratory droplets (drops of moisture expelled from the nasal passages, mouth and throat) enter the air. When this air is inhaled by healthy individuals, the virus enters into his/her body through the respiratory tract. Sometimes the infection spreads by touching some objects with the virus on their surface and then touching the mouth or nose. It can be noted that the virus does not spread by eating properly handled and prepared pork (pig meat), which is cooked at 160°F temperature.
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∙ 8y agoThe virus must have the help of something called a vector. Many times, this is a mosquito or it can be on the feet of a fly.
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