ROTTERDAM / ATLANTA – The Mexican flu is more dangerous than was thought until recently. The Mexican Flu Virus penetrates into the lower airways. This is the risk of pneumonia a lot bigger than the normal winter flu, which usually nests in the upper airways. Also the virus infiltrates the gastrointestinal tract.
This according to research by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the results published Thursday in the scientific journal Science.
Virologists from both research compared the progress of the Mexican flu with the regular flu. This was in the CDC laboratory six p.m.-infected ferrets and the Erasmus MC in six ferrets. Flu develops in the same way as predatory animals in humans, why they laboratories and pilot model. (more…)
