A drug that blocks the messenger chemical or limits its production might protect infected patients from their own immune system while they receive flu drugs that can kill the virus itself.

一种能阻滞或者限制信使分子产量的药物有可能保护被感染的患者不受自身免疫系统的损害，同时，患者服用流感药物可以杀死流感病毒。

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Mr. MOHSENI: The issue now here is will they inadvertently kill the messenger?

NPR: Afghan Media Complain of Government Control

Rather than kill the messenger, investors (and especially self-serving muni-issuers, underwriters, salesmen, and portfolio managers) would do better to look into the grave that awaits underfunded pension plans and call on politicians to fill in the holes.

FORBES: Don't Shoot The Messenger: Pensions Will Sink Munis

The most effective approach is to stamp out demand--it is far more effective to kill the message than the messenger or the intermediary.

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