How The Immune System Fights Disease

 

Germs are swallowed by the white blood cells.
 

 

Blood cells break the germs into pieces and the B cells are signaled.
 

 

The protein made by the B cells surrounds the germs.
 

 

The killer T cells are signaled by the protein to kill ther germs.

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