Panel 35. Birds are the reservoirs of influenza viruses, meaning they host these viruses almost permanently, and have done so for a very long time. It is indeed thought that the flu first appeared in birds, 6000 years ago, before infecting humans around 2500 years before Christ, at the time of the domestication of certain bird species by humans.

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The H1N1 influenza virus

  • Philippe Roingeard

摘要

Panel 35. Birds are the reservoirs of influenza viruses, meaning they host these viruses almost permanently, and have done so for a very long time. It is indeed thought that the flu first appeared in birds, 6000 years ago, before infecting humans around 2500 years before Christ, at the time of the domestication of certain bird species by humans.