Immune disorders can be split into autoimmunity and immunodeficiency. Autoimmune disorders are characterized by body's immune system attacking the cells of the body itself. Immunodeficiency disorders are the opposite. These are conditions where the immune system is lacking, and therefore cannot …
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“Kids are vulnerable because of their immune system,” Dr. Eric Gottesman said. “They're young, they haven't been exposed to this before, so their body attacks them full on.” Gottesman is director of the intensive care unit at North Shore University Hospital. “You're having problems breathing, becoming …
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The researchers analyzed blood samples from people vaccinated for the virus in the 2012-13 season and found no difference in antibody response to the vaccine or circulating strains, implying that immune systems didn't acknowledge strain differences due to egg mutations because they already …
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âAt the start, we thought that the bat might have a super-strong innate immune system which meant that their interferon could kill all the virus, but later on after the bat genome and a number of other studies, we started to think that there might be something special, and that they were in balance with the …
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