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- Sarah-Grace Heller, Department of French and Italian
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Chandran Kalyanam, Clinical Psychiatry
- Sarah-Grace Heller, Department of French and Italian
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- Dave Kraybill, Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
Dave Kraybill is a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
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Earle Holland, assistant vice president of research communications
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Social stress may enhance immune response to flu
March 17, 2010
By Earle Holland
John Sheridan, associate director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, found that mice infected with influenza while stressed are better able to fight off subsequent infections of the same strain of the flu.
The study showed that the stressed mice had a 10-fold increase in their resistance to an influenza infection, and that this protection lasted at least up to three months after the stressful episodes. Continue reading ‘Social stress may enhance immune response to flu’
Fighting the Flu
May 7, 2009
Ohio State mobilizes its army of experts to deal with the influenza outbreak
When word came from health agencies in Mexico that a strain of influenza virus was both spreading rapidly and becoming deadly, it didn’t take long for Ohio State to mobilize for a fight.
“We’ve had a plan in place for three years now,” said Bob Armstrong, Ohio State’s emergency management director. “When we looked at the information we were getting, it became obvious that it was time to implement those plans.” Continue reading ‘Fighting the Flu’
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