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Decryption – If respiratory infections are responsible for several thousand deaths in France each year, they may also have more sneaky deleterious effects, deferred in time.
Respiratory infections are frequent and have only banal consequences for most people. The fact remains that each year, they are also responsible for several thousand deaths in France. But these respiratory viruses could also have more devious deleterious effects, deferred over time. This is what work published on July 30 in the journal suggests Nature. The experiences carried out on mice show that flu or covid may be enough to awaken dormant cancer cells and thus promote the development of metastases. Experimental results that would be corroborated by epidemiological data, advance the researchers.
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