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The article is correct. Infection is the process of a virus entering a cell. Disease is the virus's cumulative effect on the body due to the infection.

Since the protein (LRRC15) mentioned in the article binds to the virus, making it impossible for the virus to infect the cells, it does indeed block infection.




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