Influenza And Bacterial Pneumonia Make For Harmful Super-infection
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 18:28
in Health & Medicine
Influenza, or flu, is an unpleasant affair with fever, cough, as well as head and body ache. When this illness is further complicated by a bacterial pneumonia, a harmful super-infection develops. Until now, researchers thought that the flu facilitates an infection with pneumonia bacteria because it leads to a decrease of immune cells in the blood and thus impairs the body's defenses.
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