Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths
by bawolff on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:02AM
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To be fair, influenza is a bit of a different beast than colds, it mutates a lot relative to other diseases. We do get bad strains of influenza from time to time. Most famously in 1918, but we had a flu pandemic as recently as 2009.
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Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths
by kenneth on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @05:12AM
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Influenza can cross species boundaries and that's what tends to make it generally more dangerous than the natural mutations in seasonal flu. The "swine flu" pandemic of 2009 involved bird and pig influenza viruses mixing genetic materials with human influenza.