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New Study Finds Flu Virus "Paralyzes" Immune System

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-just-stunning dept.

mmmscience writes with this excerpt from Examiner.com: "A study coming out of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has found that the influenza virus manages to dysregulate the immune system, allowing other infections to thrive in the body. This discovery, coming at an opportune time as the world battles the new H1N1 flu outbreak, may be the first step in understanding why the flu can cause such high mortality rates in normally healthy individuals."

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  1. Weird site behavior by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    anyone else not able to use Up/Down arrows and PageUp/PageDown on that page? any web devs out there know why?