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HIV targets CD4+ cells in your immune system, and uses them for factories of reporduction. The CD4+ lymphocyte is the most potent killer in your immune system. By killing off these CD4+ cells, HIV can effectively render your immune system useless and leave you susceptible to many different types of infections that can be fatal.
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Can a virus be destroy?
Yes because your immune system can fight and destroy it. Not all viruses can be destroyed. (HIV and AIDs for example)
What 2 things destroy a virus in your body?
for a fungal infection, your T cells destroy it, for a bacterial infection your plasma cells destroy it
How the immune system helps?
Vaccines contain a 'dead' or weakened form of a virus. The immune system will still respond as if the virus were a threat (when it is completely harmless) and will destroy it, generating lymphocytes that will 'recognise' the virus if it ever enters the body again, allowing rapid destruction if the virus ever enters the body again.
How do your body fights viruses?
white blood cells are the fighters of the body. whenever a virus invades the human body, white blood cells fight off the virus
What virus attacks the cells in the immune system that produces that antibodies?
HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus that attacks the cells in the immune system that produce antibodies.
How vaccines help the immune system?
Immune System Vaccines are like a mild type of a disease is given to you or your pet and whilst you may feel ill for a day or two it will make you immune to that same disease but it can only be certain diseases.
What kills viruses in humans?
A vaccine is injected into the human body containing the antigens of the virus. The body's immune system produces antibodies from B-cells to destroy the virus and remembers the virus if it ever enters the body again.
What virus attacks the cells in the immune system that produce antibodies?
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) attacks the T cells, which are a type of immune cell that plays a crucial role in coordinating the immune response, including the production of antibodies. By destroying these cells, HIV weakens the immune system's ability to fight infections effectively.
What is an antonym for immune system?
Virus
Can you carry the flu if you get the flu shot?
No. The flu shot contains either weakened or dead virus particles that can not make you sick or contagious. They act to trigger your immune system to make the right cells to destroy that type of virus. The immune system is "tricked" into doing it, it doesn't do it because you are actually sick.
Is lupus a virus?
Lupus is not a virus, it is a malfunction of the immune system.
Is HIV a virus that destroys the circulatory system?
No, it is a virus that usually destroys the *immune*system of primates.
