Vaccination Causes Viral Mutation
Are vaccines giving more problems than it's solving?
Dead and Live Vaccines?
Antigenic Drift
Viral Adaptation
If weaker, they will obviously die off. If they are stronger, they will over-compete the original virus and take it's place.
”[Mutations] can vary from a split second to even days depending on type of virus. Mutations are very unpredictable."- Dr. Aftab Shariff
The Flu
The World and Viruses
As years go by, more and more new and more harmful viruses will continue to "pop up" just like they already have been with the SARS coronavirus, H1N1, Ebola, you name it. All viruses had to come from somewhere.
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