Prática de Shadowing: What the Flu Does to Your Body - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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How does flu kill you?
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Influenza doesn't kill you like a bullet.
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The virus hijacks your cells to replicate, killing many of them in the process.
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For some, this damage and the immune system's counter-attack make the air sacs in your lungs leaky or stop working.
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In others, it weakens your defenses so bacteria can flood in, causing sepsis and even multiple organ failure.
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The flu still kills up to 600,000 people a year.
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Around 1 in 5 deaths happen in rich countries, but over 80% of flu kills are in lower income countries,
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where access to vaccines or treatments like oxygen therapy are limited.
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Flu hits hardest where immune systems are already weakened.
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And for stressed healthcare systems, one outbreak can cancel surgeries, exhaust oxygen supplies and overwhelm medical staff.
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Preparing poorer countries to handle flu emergencies and other pandemics costs around $15 billion a year,
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less than 0.02% of the five richest countries' money, but eight cuts are putting even these funds and their own people at risk.
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To really cut flu deaths, we need new, more affordable vaccines and a surveillance network to detect outbreaks, which could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
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