Articles for tag: disease protection, Human Biology, immune system, immunity

A healthcare professional administers a vaccine using a syringe in a close-up shot.

Human Body’s Hidden Defenses: How Your Immune System Fights Disease

Suhail Ahmed

  You carry a standing army inside you, yet most of the time you never feel the battles it fights. Every breath, every handshake, every subway ride brings in microbes that could, in theory, make you seriously sick, and still you usually wake up fine the next morning. For decades, scientists treated the immune system ...