Prof. Katherine Kedzierska. Photo Loretta Florance ABC |
Understanding how an enemy works is the first step towards defeating it.That is why scientists have been scrambling to find out what coronavirus does to the body. Now for the first time, researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity understand how humans fight off the virus.
Laboratory head Katherine Kedzierska found people's immune system responded to coronavirus in the same way we try to fight the flu."The immune cell populations we have seen emerging before patients recover are the same cells that we see in influenza," she said.
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