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In a paper published Monday in the journal JNeurosci, researchers report that female mice who got the flu showed neurological inflammation symptoms, even many days after the acute phase of the illness had passed. We know that the flu can affect your brain, but this shows that those effects could last well after the worst of the infection.
To conduct this research, the team of U.S. and German scientists infected mice with one of three strains of influenza A (H1N1, H3N2, and H7N7) and then performed cognitive tests ? mazes ? on the mice. Thirty days after the infection had subsided, the researchers found that the H3N2 and H7N7 mice had trouble navigating these mazes, suggesting they had impaired memory function even though they were no longer showing acute symptoms of the flu.
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To conduct this research, the team of U.S. and German scientists infected mice with one of three strains of influenza A (H1N1, H3N2, and H7N7) and then performed cognitive tests ? mazes ? on the mice. Thirty days after the infection had subsided, the researchers found that the H3N2 and H7N7 mice had trouble navigating these mazes, suggesting they had impaired memory function even though they were no longer showing acute symptoms of the flu.
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