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  • What was her fist line of defense
    Nosehairs
  • To multiply, where does the virus need to go?
    throat
  • From this single throat cell how many are born?
    10,000
  • The ultimate weapon is a what and a what cell that are designed to deal with influenza B
    T and B cell
  • immune cells are produced faster than normal. even hair and nails what faster than normal
    grow, 20%
  • Once inside, what does the virus force the cell to do.
    Make new viruses
  • These cells spray a what to destroy the pieces of what being hatched inside the cell
    poison, pieces of virus
  • interleukin turns up what which tricks her body into thinking she is what. what is she getting?
    thermostat, cold , fever
  • How fast do some sneeze droplets fly
    40 MPH
  • what purpose is the pain?
    slow down
  • How does the virus fool the cell into letting it become a part of it
    Thinks its a harmless protein
  • B ells do not go into the battle field themselves. instead, they create what that target newborn what
    antibodies, viruses
  • as her temp rises virus cloning what?
    slows down
  • Debris that is left over is swept away by what and what
    cilia and mucus
  • all over her throat, dendritic cells have been gathering pieces of what. They are going in search for the ultimate weapon against what?
    virus; influenza B
  • interleukins summon what to the battlefield? they make her feel how?
    reinforcements; terrible
  • How do Holly's cells communicate
    Proteins as messangers
  • The T cells go to the throat and take them
    out with a surgical precision
  • effects of cells being destroyed in the throat are what and what
    soreness and swelling
  • what is the result of the temp raising and making body vessels swell?
    pressure gives headache
  • why is it good thing that she cannot find any painkillers
    lower fever and cause more production of virus
  • what are the front line troops of the immune system?
    natural killer cells
  • the virus has only attached a tiny what? but her what aches all over
    patch of her cells, body
  • Where did the invaders enter holly's body
    Nose
  • What stopped the bacteria
    Mucus
  • what happens to some of her throat cells
    destroyed
  • In two hours, the virus has infected how many cells in her throat
    5,000
  • How many viruses Got In Holly
    1
  • Holly's cell has become a virus what?
    cloning factory
  • her coughing is clearing away
    debris