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Explain how having a patient temporarily stop taking drugs can help combat the emergence of drug resistant viruses.

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by not taking drugs for a while, the virus will continue to produce the wrong or mutated DNA. after a while, the patient starts taking the drugs again and the DNA that will help the drug come back and outnumber the other ones.
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they are giving you a small dose of that virus so that your body knows how to fight it off if you get the actual thing.

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