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Mutates,and shows resistance to drugs?
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    Posted: January 19 2007 at 12:25pm
This virus is fighting every possibility to eradicate it.                                       http://www.flulab.com/index.php?f=2
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A virus does not fight, it simply reproduces its code if possible, creating millions upon millions of copies. Each copy can have "errors" or mutations that get repeated in the next generations.

Resistance to antivirals comes from one of these errors that lets the virus continue reproducing copies of one of these altered strains when other strains cannot. This is how we get different strains popping up.
The antiviral chemicals act differently from each other. Some block a receptor the virus needs to attach to on a cell completely, some only partly or weakly block the same receptor. Others prevent reproduction or other processes necessary to create new viral particles and help them get back out of the cells where they can infect new cells.
Learn and prepare.
Focus on awareness and prevention.
Antivirals are a tool in the response, not a cure.
 
Accept responsibility for your choices and actions. Failure to choose is in itself a choice for non-action.
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