Mutation explains why some people are more vulnerable to viral brain infection

For previously healthy children, brain infections are rare. But about one out of every 10,000 people who are exposed to common viruses like herpes simplex or influenza will develop a potentially deadly disease, encephalitis. Rockefeller's Jean-Laurent Casanova has identified mutations in a single gene ...

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