The Impact of Non-Neurotropic Influenza Strains on the Brain: A Role for Microglial Priming?

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. The “Spanish Flu”, as it came to be known, was one of the deadliest and most widespread in modern history, with fatalities estimated in the tens of millions ([Kristensson, 2006][1]). In the wake of the pandemic, an