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new form without its presence triggering the immune response that
responded to its earlier form. Under normal conditions, vaccines—
-the only precaution against viruses—stimulate the body to recog-
nize viral strains that may infect it later, but are ineffective against
a virus that has mutated itself. When a killed virus is introduced

through vaccination, the immune system perceives it as hostile and
produces antibodies to destroy it. However, vaccines are unable to
recognize a new virus that produces the same disease but which
has altered its genes. Indeed, a flu vaccine becomes obsolete the fol-

lowing year, because the influenza virus assumes a new form every
year. This also applies to the HIV virus that leads to AIDS.
However, the HIV virus mutates so fast that the antiviral medica-
tions eventually lose their effectiveness.
It is impossible not to see the superior and intelligent ability of
the virus here. The virus's speed of reproduction and changing its

own form is so rapid as to far exceed those of human technology.
An average virus can produce 10,000 new particles a day. If you
have one viral particle on Monday, you will have 10,000 on Tuesday
and soon 10,000 times 10,000, and then 10,000 times 10,000 times

10,000—1,000 billion viral particles.
When the HIV virus, for example, enters the body, the immune
system destroys more than half the invading particles by within
five days. Yet just as many new particles emerge during that same HARUN YAHYA
time. When at least one is recognized by the defense system, the

others will mutate into a different form, thus resisting the attacks
and becoming the first generation of the new HIV population.
From the perspective of the theory of evolution, viruses pose (ADNAN OKTAR)
yet another unanswered question. The virus occupies an imaginary

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