Middle-aged individuals may be in a perpetual state of H3N2 flu virus susceptibility. – Brinkwire

Penn Medicine researchers have found that middle-aged individualsthose born in the late 1960s and the 1970smay be in a perpetual state of H3N2 influenza virus susceptibility because their antibodies bind to H3N2 viruses but fail to prevent infections, according to a new study led by Scott Hensley, Ph.D., an associate professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The paper was published today in Nature Communications.
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