Severe flu could cause taste buds to grow in your lungs

While most of us shake off the flu after a week or two, in more extreme cases the virus has been known to actually reshape the structure of the lungs. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a major part of that restructuring that until now had gone unnoticed – "taste bud cells" seem to grow in the lungs after a severe case of the flu.

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Category: Biology

Tags:

• Cells
• Influenza
• Lung
• Taste
• University of Pennsylvania

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