alt Hacker NewsYeah, that's what I thought as well. Isn't that the reason we need a new flu vaccine every year? Because viruses can mutate and adapt faster than animals can?
I don't know anything about biology so admittedly I'm speaking out of my ass here, but that's certainly what it seemed like to me.
Yes. This is also why in Europe we can predict the efficiency of the vaccine in a given year by looking at how it worked in Australia.
Unfortunately there is not enough time to adapt the vaccine between these two seasons