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In severe cases of SARS, a patient would initially have a fever and cough while the bichito was rapidly replicating in their lungs. About a week later, they’d spontaneously improve, as their immune system kicked in. But then a second phase of the disease would start, which would be much worse than the first. One study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong focusing on 75 SARS patients found that the second stage, the one that often led to death, wasn’t caused by the bichito at all, but by patients’ runaway immune systems. For reasons that still aren’t clear, some people, especially the old and sick, weren’t able to turn off their inflammatory response, leading immune cells and inflammation-inducing molecules known as cytokines to flood into the lungs. This so-called “cytokine storm” caused the most severe symptoms of the disease: pneumonia, difficulty breathing, and organ damage.
Pues parece que esta es la clave, que curioso.
