Lung inflammation from influenza could be turned off with new di...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Sat, 07/26/2008 - 23:00

(Imperial College London) A new discovery could lead to treatments which turn off the inflammation in the lungs caused by influenza and other infections.

The symptoms of influenza, such as breathlessness, weight loss and fever, are made much worse by the immune system responding in an exaggerated way to the virus, rather than by the virus itself.

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