Robert Webster (virologist)
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Robert Gordon Webster (b. 1932) is an avian influenza authority who correctly posited that pandemic strains of flu arise from genes in flu virus strains in nonhumans; for example, via a reassortment of genetic segments (antigenic shift) between viruses in humans and nonhumans (especially birds) rather than by mutations (antigenic drift) in annual human flu strains.[1]
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Robert Gordon Webster | |
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Born | (1932-07-05) 5 July 1932 (age 91) Balclutha, New Zealand |
Alma mater | University of Otago Australian National University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Virology |
Institutions | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
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