The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
Carl ZimmerAt long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more.
Carl Zimmer