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As California bird flu outbreak worsens, a Missouri patient who caught it is alarming experts
Notably, the CDC is urging farmworkers in particular to get the flu vaccine this year because of the risk of co-infection. If multiple virus strains circulate together at once, genetic material could be swapped around in a process called viral reassortment, potentially producing more dangerous evolutions of either virus.
However, all of these strategies should be ramped up, said Dr. Scott Roberts, an infectious diseases specialist at Yale Medicine.
Source: Salon