New culprit for viral infections among elderly - an overactive immune response
Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 06:14
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November 19 Cell Host and Microbe, the study bucks the general belief that declining immune responses are to blame for susceptibility to viral infections...