Avoiding fatal responses to flu infection

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Most of the time, being ill with the flu is little more than a nuisance. Other times, it can spark an exaggerated immune response and turn deadly. Researchers have now traced the origins of this severe immune response -- called a cytokine storm -- to its source.

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