New Study Finds Flu Virus "Paralyzes" Immune System 84
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."
Stop calling it H1N1 (Score:1, Funny)
That's a Chess move on my 16x16 board. I feel offended!
Re:H1N1 (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know what's worse, that you made that reference, or that I understood it.
Swine Flu BS (Score:4, Funny)
The "Swine Flu" is being blown out of proportions in terms of it's severity so that all the big drug companies can get there bailout, too. The large population of retards who believe everything they hear from the mainstream media get scared, thus causing the government to order millions of dollars worth of "Tamiflu" and drugs alike. Doesn't anyone else see this?
Hold on...there's a knock at the d-%!$*%& NO CARRIER
Re:Weird site behavior (Score:5, Funny)
Its because your anti-virus has been paralysed.
strangely enough (Score:5, Funny)
the flu virus has also been found to paralyze the attentions of the mass media industry
Re:So the question becomes (Score:2, Funny)
Apparently, Ronnie Michael Smith at the Foundation for Studying Flu discovered this - it's called Glandular Proto-immune Limitation syndrome. Swine Flu is the third variant to be discovered so far, and by far the most pernicious, because it is immune to usual antivirals. It causes most fatailities among those of employable age but who get only limited excercise, with crippling consequences for businesses that do not take extreme measures to exclude it from their buildings.
Quoting RMS, "We at the FSF have created GPL3 to plug gaps in earlier GPL versions. We expect it to spread rapidly into desktops across the world, and hopefully it will allow us to target more effectively any non-compliant corporations".