What a single person's flu can tell you about how the virus mutates around the world

What could a single person’s flu infection tell us about how the virus changes across the world? Image: REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Katherine Xue
Doctoral Student in Genome Science, University of Washington
Jesse Bloom
Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Affiliate Associate Professor of Genome Sciences and Microbiology, University of Washington

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