Lesson 20: Stress and Illness: Slide  9

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Your Immune System

  • Your immune system is a collection of biological processes that protects you against disease by identifying and killing or removing harmful agents
  • It detects a wide variety of harmful agents including viruses, bacteria, parasites and tumor cells
  • It distinguishes them from your own healthy cells and tissues
  • Disorders in the immune system can result in disease

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system

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