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We're told flu viruses mutate to multiple new strains every year where we have no existing immunity, why then is it relatively rare to catch the flu multiple times in the same season?

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Could extreme measures to miminimize transmission of common pathogens carry any unintended negative consequences? either environmental or biological

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We're told flu viruses mutate to multiple new strains every year where we have no existing immunity, why then is it relatively rare to catch the flu multiple times in the same season?	7715
Could extreme measures to miminimize transmission of common pathogens carry any unintended negative consequences? either environmental or biological	1