Swine flu variant linked to fatal cases might have disabled the clearing mechanism of lungs

Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:01 in Health & Medicine

A variant of last year's pandemic influenza linked to fatal cases carried a mutation that enabled it to infect a different subset of cells lining the airway, according to new research. The study, due...

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