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Melinda Wenner Moyer

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Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve

By Melinda Wenner Moyer
May 10, 2018
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Just as antibiotics have bred resistance in bacteria, vaccines can potentially lose their effectiveness over diseases they controlled. Researchers are working to head off the evolution of new threats.

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Melinda Wenner Moyer is a science writer based in New York's Hudson Valley. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American and a columnist at Slate. She is a 2018 visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and an Alicia Patterson fellow.
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