scientist now have an idea of just how the H1N1 virus may be so deadly , and what make it different from earlier computer virus from the same family . soupcon : It ’s where it go inside your body that counts .
According to New Scientist , two separate teams of scientist in the Netherlands and the US have discovered through examination on beast that the pandemic strain of the computer virus differs from other seasonal strains in the means that it binds with its victims :
Both groups found that the seasonal computer virus binds almost only to cells in the ferrets ’ nose . But , the pandemic H1N1 binds deeper , in the lung ’s trachea , bronchi and bronchioles . The pandemic virus also replicate more , and cause more damage , though none of the ferrets were gravely ill … The US grouping found also found binding in the intestines , explain the strange sickness and vomiting learn in some cases of the pandemic flu . Both teams concluded that the virus could adapt further to human , which might make it more austere .
So all we have to do to be protect from the pandemic is rapidly germinate less - lung- and intenstine - centrical ways of existing , right … ? We ’ll get right on that .
give away : How pandemic swine flu kills[New Scientist ]
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