This massive immune response might produce a life-threatening cytokine storm.
This polyclonal T-cell population causes a cytokine storm, followed by a multisystem disease.
Modern analysis has shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.
The 1918 flu caused an unusual number of deaths, possibly due to it causing a cytokine storm in the body.
It is thought that cytokines are activated leading to a cytokine storm with the potentially fatal consequences of organ failure.
The virus can also overload the immune system, causing what is known as a cytokine storm.
This is consistent with the frequent development of a cytokine storm in the afflicted.
Severe cases are known as cytokine storms.
Another important example of cytokine storm is seen in acute pancreatitis.
Human deaths from the bird flu H5N1 usually involve cytokine storms as well.