Immune response turned up, not down, by flu during pregnancy, study finds

22 septiembre 2014

Pregnant women have an unusually strong immune response to influenza, an unexpected finding that may explain why they get sicker from the flu than other healthy adults, new research has found. The results were surprising because immune responses are thought to be weakened by pregnancy to prevent the woman’s body from rejecting her fetus.
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