What Krug discovered was the way that one of the 14 proteins in the flu virus replicates itself. He calls the process "cap snatching," and it's something that is relatively unusual in human viruses.

What Krug discovered was the way that one of the 14 proteins in the flu virus replicates itself. He calls the process "cap snatching," and it's something that is relatively unusual in human viruses.

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