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If the flu virus mutates in the future, it may attach to the receptors deep inside the lungs more strongly, and this could mean that more people would experience serious symptoms.
The vaccines would almost certainly be the same unless the strain mutates sufficiently to require an entirely new vaccine to be made.
Currently flu vaccines use a protein covering the surface of viruses but the protein frequently mutates to make the vaccines ineffective.
 
 
 
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