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Study: First influenza infection does not make people immune to future flu viruses – News-Medical.Net
A child’s first influenza infection shapes their immunity to future airborne flu viruses-;including emerging pandemic strains.
A child’s first influenza infection shapes their immunity to future airborne flu viruses-;including emerging pandemic strains. But not all flu strains spur the same initial immune defense, according to new findings published today by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine virologists in the journal PLOS Pathogens.
These results are relevant right now to the COVID-19 pandemic. They may explain age-based distributions of SARS-CoV-2 disease severity and susceptibility. Having flu once does not…
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