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    Gray seals perplex scientists with lack of response to flu infection

    2025-09-04T12:39:00Z

    Something strange happens when two kinds of seals living in the waters around Cape Cod get infected with influenza – harbor seals get sick but gray seals don’t. This perplexing phenomenon led scientists to investigate if a difference in a piece of the immune system called cytokines could be responsible for this difference.