Faulty immunological memories could have made middle-aged people more susceptible to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu, a new study shows.
Middle-aged people’s bodies tried to defend against H1N1 by hurling antibodies for similar viruses at the new flu. But the old antibodies’ aim wasn’t true and may have ended up backfiring, a study published online December 5 in Nature Medicine suggests.
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