Saturday, October 24, 2009

How to catch a virus: Flu 101

NPR has a great video on how flu viruses spread and multiply.  In this video, "NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses".





Although this isn't really Cushing's related, it is pertinent to all of us.  We are all immunocompromised with this disease, and everything we can do to prevent infection is important to us!  Besides, this is wonderful animation and I'm a real David Bolinsky fan.  I know you'll enjoy him.

For more interesting reading/viewing:

http://xvivo.net/
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/


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