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Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body

When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus ...  
 
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fukencool (3 days ago) Show Hide
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You idiot , haha, basicly dead.. i am 15 and i had the flu! It's nothing:D Even the usual flu is stronger than swine flu.;)
mercanaries3 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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the swine flu destroys the white cells so your body is basically useless until u drop dead
Hatchwork (3 days ago) Show Hide
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You are definitely wrong. WBC has the power to fight against virus or super virus or any other harmful object for the body. The white blood cells engulf the viruse and then killer T cells kill it. Antibodies are produced by the body to fight off the infectious cells or the virus.
pepeillo2006 (3 days ago) Show Hide
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RESIDENT EVIL 6
leonidoko (3 days ago) Show Hide
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HAHAHA !!! Nice one pepeillo2006 :D i rofl'd irl
LoRZaSs (3 days ago) Show Hide
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eduo, si para ti 27 segundos es una tercera parte de 219 segundos, vamos bien. Que lo mismo es que tienes ansia por apuntar con el dedo a los demás para llamarnos "paranoicos". Quizás cierta ignorancia puedo tener en ambos campos, pero se lo suficiente como para saber de lo que hablan en este video, si quieres te puedo explicar algo de la respuesta inmune.
A lo que me refiero es que ese casi 10% es como la letra pequeña, pero lo que está en grande y muy vistoso es el VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS VIRUS
Teviadar (5 days ago) Show Hide
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La gripe A es un invento para vender medicamentos, y la B y la C y la ke kieras.
lupintercero (5 days ago) Show Hide
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la gripe A nos va a matar a todos. es peor que el terrorismo y que el comunismo. que miedoooo
SweetPlague (5 days ago) Show Hide
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needed more words, like proteinsynthesis and ribosome and so on.
But besides that, it was pretty helpful.

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