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Mystery #1Tier 2microbes / immunity

How does your body fight off germs that make you ill?

Sometimes a germ slips inside you and you feel poorly for a few days, then you get better, all by yourself. Nobody had to fix you from outside. So what's going on inside your body that hunts down the invaders and wins?

An illustration of a macrophage, a kind of white blood cell, reaching out with arm-like extensions to hunt down and swallow germs.
Photo: NIAID / Ryan Kissinger (NIH BioArt) · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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