Flu Causes Heart Complications by Directly Infecting Cardiac Cells, Mouse Study Shows - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Findings address debate within the clinical literature as to whether influenza virus directly or indirectly causes cardiac complications.

Researchers headed by a team at The Ohio State Universitys College of Medicine have shown for the first time, in mice, that heart problems associated with flu infection are not caused by inflammation… [+7461 chars]

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