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Should it be included that influenza vaccine must be updated every year because the influenza virus evolves so readily? Or is this fact contrary to the worldview of this encyclopaedia?
Should it be included that influenza vaccine must be updated every year because the influenza virus evolves so readily? Or is this fact contrary to the worldview of this encyclopaedia?
:::Define evolve as evolutionists often like to equivocate. [[User:Conservative|conservative]] 11:46, 3 February 2010 (EST)
:::Define evolve as evolutionists often like to equivocate. [[User:Conservative|conservative]] 11:46, 3 February 2010 (EST)
::::I don't know if "evolve" is the right term to use here. The influenza virus "mutates" (as all genomes do, just at a far more rapid rate than, say, human genomes). The influenza virus isn't adapting to vaccines nor is natural selection involved (both are core elements of evolution); rather the virus strain is merely changing and is no more or less adapted than ones before it. -[[User:DwightL|DwightL]] 12:49, 3 February 2010 (EST)