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Why are flu vaccines so hard
to make?
• Flu strains are highly variable
– Recombination among the viral gene
segments
– RNA polymerase has high mutation
rate
• Now have some antiviral drugs
(e.g. Tamiflu)
– blocks the neuramidase enzyme so
virus isn’t released from cell