Do virologist also create new viruses?

I want to study the human body and study how viruses work on the human body, do they also create viruses or work on them?

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  • Sorry but you will be totally useless as a virologist, they need to know the difference between computers and humans.

  • Influenza virus mutates due to the fact that the RNA polymerase enzyme that it uses to replicate does not have an error checking mechanism. The virus will mutate despite vaccine use. Basically the virus mutates due to the fact it's sloppy, but that sloppiness offers the virus an evolutionary abilities of heading off the humoral immune procedure somewhat. The vaccine essentially does the identical thing that recuperating from an infection does, that is gives the host immunity to that strain of virus. Generally a extra enormous problem on this regard has been the indiscriminate use of medicinal drugs like tamiflu. In this case, a mutation that makes the virus drug resistant additionally offers it a colossal capabilities since these viruses will continue replicating within the host as the customary pressure touchy to the drug will die, and then spread to other individuals. When watching at pandemic occurrences though, the 2009 H1N1, like many others, was once precipitated with the aid of a reassortment of genes between extraordinary virus lines. This type of mutation can create an endemic that looks fully new to our immune process.

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