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Nature Medicine 10, 1268 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm1204-1268a

Immune response to SARS sets up puzzling paradox

Apoorva Mandavilli1

  1. New York With additional reporting by David Cyranoski

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) rarely makes headlines these days, but immunologists are still chasing down why only a subset of people became severely ill and died from the disease. Popular hypotheses all suggest that an overactive or otherwise dysfunctional immune response may be to blame.