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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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Neat video
KRUX96 (5 days ago) Show Hide
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i wonder... can someone get H1N1 if a person's wound gets contact with a H1N1 infected person's wound?
xfireblitzx (1 week ago) Show Hide
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they're probably trying to make this video more interesting for a younger crowd. it's a cool animation, but i wish he didn't use the word "things" that much.
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lol resident evil 6
chemj (1 week ago) Show Hide
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Yeah, that makes it wonderful. you should show to your Daddy and Mommy. Unless they are experts in biology
thislittlelieofmine (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I always wondered what our immune system sounded like when at work.
brett84c (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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awesome job... very entertaining and interesting
cheesyflames (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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@totoroben Yes, and we should be expecting more mutated strains. If a H5N1 influenza were to break out, we would be in a state of emergency...
cheesyflames (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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@Tottte This is unlike H1N1 ("Swine Flu"). The H and N stand for proteins found on the outside of the cell membrane (H is short for for hemagglutinin and N means for neuraminidase) and the 1 is a subtype (H 1,2,3/N 1,2 are commonly found in humans).

Swine flu is a new strain of virus, so it was considered dangerous because it attacks the respiratory system. It is deadly to old, pregnant and obese people. It is also deadly to infants and toddlers below the age of five.
cheesyflames (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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@Tottte Don't you mean Resident Evil 5? And you spelt difference and finally wrong.

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