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Viral strains "replace" others?
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In this article from the US National Institutes of Health, I read the following:
That year, a pandemic of H3N2 influenza, known as the Hong Kong flu, completely replaced the H2N2 and H1N1 seasonal influenza strains that circulated earlier.
How does it happen that a flu strain replaces its predecessors? Are they actively "fighting" among each other? Are they competing for finite resources? Does the immune response for H3N2 end up fighting H2N2 and H2N1 more effectively?
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