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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tD33NAt" data-source="post: 2684009" data-attributes="member: 124445">People with a rare variant of a gene that codes for an anti-viral protein are more likely to end up in hospital seriously ill  when they get the flu than others who carry other variants, according to new research led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute  in the UK that was published in Nature on Sunday. People who do not have the rare variant of IFITM3 only have mild reactions to the influenza virus, said the researchers who  found the gene codes for a protein that is important for helping the body defend itself against the virus...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~4/k9w62h4ZSmw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mnt/healthnews/~3/k9w62h4ZSmw/243383.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>