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The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Graphical abstract summarizing the key findings

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The authors found that severe influenza damages the heart by exploiting a specific immune cells and engaging a type-I interferon response. The authors also show that therapeutic silencing of the response mitigates heart damage

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