Why Flu Recovery Is Slower for Women

The susceptibility and recovery from various pulmonary infections have been observed to have a sex bias, depending on the microbial pathogen. For instance, researchers have known that women, compared to men, tend to have more severe flu with slower recoveries even when their virus levels are the same. It had been thought that this was due solely to women's greater levels of lung inflammation during flu infections. However, now investigators at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have