Reassortment

Reassortment: The rearrangement of genes from two distinct influenza strains to produce a novel viral strain(link).

From this:

“And in the next few weeks, scientists working there are planning to manufacture a new resident. They hope to test whether the highly transmissible pandemic H1N1 virus could reassort with its deadlier cousin, the H5N1 avian flu, to make a virus with the worst properties of both.” (emphasis mine - Jack)

And shortly after they will infect the hamsters with this new super-virus, who will then go on to develop uncontrollable rage at being treated like guinea pigs, kind of like a "rage virus", biting the scientists through their BSL-4 suits, infecting humans...28 days later...zombies. We've all seen the bloody film, why o why make it a reality?



Links:
H5n1 pic source: http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp
H1n1 pic source: http://www.cdc.gov/H1n1flu/images.htm