::::I don't know if "evolve" is the right term to use here. The influenza virus "mutates" (as all genomes do, this isn't really debated; influenza virus strains 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) | ::::I don't know if "evolve" is the right term to use here. The influenza virus "mutates" (as all genomes do, this isn't really debated; influenza virus strains 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) |