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Article: Scientists Discover How Viral Infections Trigger Asthma Attacks
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 15, 1999
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BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
today by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health:
An encounter with the flu will not cause an asthma attack in a
healthy person. However, viral infections have long been known to
constrict the airways in the lungs of people with asthma, leading to
the wheezing and shortness of breath characteristic of an asthma
attack. Now a group of scientists at the Johns Hopkins University
Schools of Public Health and Medicine have discovered how viral
infections trigger asthma attacks in susceptible people, a finding
that may lead to strategies for countering such virus-induced health
crises. The study appeared in the ...
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