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Fatal immunity and the 1918 virus

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  • Yueh-Ming Loo

    (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard)

  • Michael Gale

    (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard)

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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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  • Yueh-Ming Loo & Michael Gale, 2007. "Fatal immunity and the 1918 virus," Nature, Nature, vol. 445(7125), pages 267-268, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:445:y:2007:i:7125:d:10.1038_445267a
    DOI: 10.1038/445267a
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    1. Enrique Acosta & Stacey A. Hallman & Lisa Y. Dillon & Nadine Ouellette & Robert Bourbeau & D. Ann Herring & Kris Inwood & David J. D. Earn & Joaquin Madrenas & Matthew S. Miller & Alain Gagnon, 2019. "Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 56(5), pages 1723-1746, October.
    2. Amanda Guimbeau & Nidhiya Menon & Aldo Musacchio, 2020. "The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American Way," NBER Working Papers 26929, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Richter, André & Robling, Per Olof, 2013. "Multigenerational e ffects of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Sweden," Working Paper Series 5/2013, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research.

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