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News in Brief: Gene variant makes flu particularly dangerous
Science News ^ | January 29, 2013 | Tina Hesman Saey

Posted on 01/29/2013 11:57:18 AM PST by neverdem

People with one form of IFITM3 more likely to develop pneumonia

Chinese people carrying a particular version of an immune system gene are up to six times more likely to develop severe influenza than those lacking the variant. In a previous study involving mostly people of European descent, scientists found that a few individuals carried a particular form of a gene known as IFITM3 and got hit especially hard by the flu. In China, the variant is much more common...

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Testing
KEYWORDS: genetics; ifitm3; influenzaah1n1; microbiology
Interferon-induced transmembrane protein-3 genetic variant rs12252-C is associated with severe influenza in Chinese individuals

It's a FReebie. This is a primary pneumonia from influenza A H1N1/09 virus, not a secondary bacterial pneumonia.

1 posted on 01/29/2013 11:57:20 AM PST by neverdem
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To: Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...
Microbes Survive, and Maybe Thrive, High in the Atmosphere

FReepmail me if you want on or off my combined microbiology/immunology ping list.

2 posted on 01/29/2013 12:10:41 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...

Ping...(Thanks, neverdem!)


3 posted on 01/29/2013 7:15:11 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping!


4 posted on 01/29/2013 8:05:17 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks- will read this tomorrow.


5 posted on 01/29/2013 8:28:53 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: neverdem
That reminds me of a brand new good one liner (you heard it here first):

I just flew in, and boy, are my arms tired!


6 posted on 01/29/2013 8:36:22 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping.


7 posted on 01/29/2013 8:40:31 PM PST by GOPJ ( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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