Innate immune defences are our first line of protection against infection by viruses and are essential in limiting viral disease. But their reaction to the 1918 influenza virus could have been deadly.
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Loo, YM., Gale, M. Fatal immunity and the 1918 virus. Nature 445, 267–268 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/445267a
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