AUG 07, 2013 2:56 PM PDT

Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body

WRITTEN BY: Jennifer Ellis


When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses.
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