Flu virus wipes out immune system's first responders to establish infection

Sunday, October 20, 2013 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

Revealing influenza’s truly insidious nature, scientists have discovered that the virus is able to infect its host by first killing off the cells of the immune system that are actually best equipped to neutralize the virus.

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