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With regard to the influenza (flu) virus, which is more dangerous to humankind? _______ Global Vaccination...

With regard to the influenza (flu) virus, which is more dangerous to humankind?

_______ Global Vaccination

_______ Antigenic Drift

_______ Antigenic Shift

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Antigenic drift and shift both are dangerous to humankind but antigenic shift is most . In these ,virus change their antigen so that previous memory cell can't recognise that antigen .

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