Eating elderberries can help minimize influenza symptoms. Compounds from elderberries can directly inhibit the virus's entry and replication in human cells, and can help strengthen a person's immune response to the virus. Source 9y
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With this in mind it can be a key ingredient or factor for improved medicine against the influenza virus. Hopefully with this discovery it can also increase the understanding for scientists in order to completely prevent certain viruses from spreading in the first place.