Re: Flu Found Resistant to Main Antiviral Drug
Please stop posting nonsense about reassortment as the "main cause".
Most of the isolates that involve only HA and or NA sequences were submitted by the CDC, who has acknowledge recombination in genetic drift, the main driver of infleunza evolution.
When p values get into the 10 billion range, hand waving about the whole sequence database being wrong really are not very convincing (especially when the data base proves that such statements are utter nonsense).
Remember the three stages of denial:
1. It can't be true.
2. Even if it was true, it can't be important.
3. We knew it all along.
CDC is moving into phase 3 with regard to homolgous recombination in influenza. Too many sequences to contine the fairy tale about reassortment as the driver.
CDC has moved on, while you are still clinging to the reassortment fairy tale.
Originally posted by gsgs
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Most of the isolates that involve only HA and or NA sequences were submitted by the CDC, who has acknowledge recombination in genetic drift, the main driver of infleunza evolution.
When p values get into the 10 billion range, hand waving about the whole sequence database being wrong really are not very convincing (especially when the data base proves that such statements are utter nonsense).
Remember the three stages of denial:
1. It can't be true.
2. Even if it was true, it can't be important.
3. We knew it all along.
CDC is moving into phase 3 with regard to homolgous recombination in influenza. Too many sequences to contine the fairy tale about reassortment as the driver.
CDC has moved on, while you are still clinging to the reassortment fairy tale.
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