SCIENCE
VIRUS AND BACTERIA
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Question
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Flu viruses replicate more rapidly over time
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Flu viruses can mutate from year to year
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Vaccines are absorbed by the body after a year
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Vaccines get stronger over time
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Detailed explanation-1: -Flu viruses are constantly changing, so flu vaccines may be updated from one season to the next to protect against the viruses that research suggests will be common during the upcoming flu season. Your protection from a flu vaccine declines over time. Yearly vaccination is needed for the best protection.
Detailed explanation-2: -Influenza (flu) viruses are constantly changing. They can change in two different ways.
Detailed explanation-3: -In fact, some mutations could make the virus less infectious. Much of our knowledge of how viruses change to escape natural or vaccine-elicited immunity comes from observing the influenza virus and constantly updating influenza vaccines. Influenza viruses change in two main ways, antigenic drift and antigenic shift.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seasonal flu vaccines are designed to protect against infection and illness caused by the flu viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming flu season. Flu vaccines do not protect against infection and illness caused by other viruses that also can cause flu-like symptoms.