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About the Class
Inside your body there is an amazing protection mechanism called the immune system. It is designed to defend you against millions of bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites that would love to invade your body.
The immune system is complex, intricate and interesting. And there are at least two good reasons for you to know more about it. First, it is just plain fascinating to understand where things like fevers, hives, inflammation, etc., come from when they happen inside your own body. You also hear a lot about the immune system in the news as new parts of it are understood and new drugs come on the market -- knowing about the immune system makes these news stories understandable. In this session, we will take a look at how your immune system works so that you can understand what it is doing for you each day, as well as what it is not.
The previous session in the series: The Animal Body - Introduction to Structure and Function
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Keywords: biology, human body, immune system, bacteria, microbes, viruses, toxins and parasites
