Why didn’t things like polio and smallpox mutate as much or as dangerously?

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Why didn’t things like polio and smallpox mutate as much or as dangerously?

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They did. It’s just that mutation rate is proportional to the number of people who are simultaneously infected, and the mutations went relatively unnoticed due to technology not being as good back then.

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