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Mutating into more lethal or transmissable forms. many are now asking whether this could happen with monkeypox. dr rosamund lewis is the head of the smallpox secretariat at the world health organisation. here's her answer to that. we can say that this is a dna virus. it's one of the largest, if not the largest, amongst the largest viruses known. the mutation rate is much lower than for rna viruses, and so it's a very stable virus. so, we don't yet have evidence that there is mutation in the virus itself. so, although monkeypox is a stable virus that doesn't tend to mutate, there are two forms ...

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>> this topic is a hot one. my colleagues talked to anthony fauci about this and he said, quote, the concept of classical herd immunity may not apply to covid-19 and that quote means we're not going to be without sars cov-2 in the population for a considerable period of time, end quote. so when you look at other infectious diseases that we've eliminated like measles, for instance, that required an extremely effective sax, enough people taking that vaccine, and a virus that doesn't change or mutate in significant ways over time. now, with the virus that causes covid-19, we're already seen it mu...

Have you heard about it? >> we have to assume it's going happen with the way this virus has worked all along. it has the ability to mutate. ba.2 is spreading rapidly across parts of europe. i think right now we have a lull in it and it hasn't picked up quite as rapidly here. it is the dominant strain possibly because we've had so many omicron pieces and i has some immunity, but as the immunity wanes -- it only lasts two or three months or so -- when we come into the fall, we will be susceptible and likely see another surge. >> so the fda advisers say that there is a plan that's needed for upda...