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How does your body defeat a virus?


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Phagocytosis:

  1. The human body consists of the immune system which is responsible for destroying foreign pathogenic molecules via phagocytosis (cellular process for ingesting and eliminating particles).
  2. The cytotoxic T-cells which are WBCs (white blood cells known as lymphocytes) are part of cell-mediated immunity.
  3. They circulate in the body searching for infectious agents.
  4. Upon encounter of a virus cell T-cell releases cytotoxic factors which destroy the affected cell as well as prevent the virus from spreading.
  5. They also activate other immune cells for a stronger response against the surviving probable infectious agents.
  6. The viral antigen can be activated by T-helper (T-lymphocytes responsible for recognizing foreign antigens) cells, which stimulated the activation of B lymphocytes (humoral immunity) and other T-cells.


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