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Not exactly, at least not the immune system most know.


In the acquired immune system, a disease enters your body and starts making you feel ill. Your immune system can now destroy this disease because it is in you and it has sensed it. Sometimes diseases are sensed so quickly and the body is already ready for it (due to memory b-cells)

that you never feel it. This often happens with the chicken poxs.


However the innate immune system can completely prevent certain diseases. Your innate immune system is made up of your skin, your digestive track (primarily the stomach and its acid), and mucus membranes (like inside your nose and lungs). Those systems can block diseases and send them away before they fully enter the body (cool facts, the space in your lungs and your digestive system are not considered "inside the body" - that's right, there is basically a hole going right through your person.)

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