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How flu changes within the human body may hint at future global trends

  • Written by Katherine Xue, Doctoral Student in Genome Sciences, University of Washington
imageWhat can a single person's flu infection tell you about how the virus changes around the world?Xue and Bloom, CC BY-SA

Evolution is usually very slow, a process of change that takes thousands or millions of years to see.

But for influenza, evolution is fast – and deadly. Flu viruses change rapidly to escape the body’s defenses. Every few...

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