A Benefit of Flu: Protection from Asthma?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213130847.htm

ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2010) — In a paper that suggests a new strategy to prevent asthma, scientists at Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues report that the influenza virus infection in young mice protected the mice as adults against the development of allergic asthma. The same protective effect was achieved by treating young mice with compound isolated from the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a bacterium that colonizes the stomach and is best known for causing ulcers and increasing the risk of gastric cancers.

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