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Every year, a new influenza vaccine is developed. What is the most likely reason that doctors do not use the same vaccine each year?

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The vaccine must be tweaked every year because influenza viruses are constantly changing and mutating. Multiple flu strains circulate in any given year, and the yearly vaccine aims to protect against three or four of the most likely strains.
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