Leilani Valdes, MD, MBA, FCAP, Chair of the CAP Council on Membership and Professional Development, spoke to CSL Seqirus about uncomfortable signs of illness. “Viral particles trigger the body to say, ‘this is not normal, these proteins aren’t my own’ which sparks an inflammatory response to try and clear out the virus,” says Dr. Valdes. “And what a patient feels has directly to do with which cells the virus prefers to replicate in and your body’s response to the process of infection.”
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