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What is the immune system?

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This video explains how the immune system defends the body against disease. The body uses two main specialised white blood cells to detect and destroy pathogens. Lymphocytes produce antibodies that clump pathogens together and phagocytes detect, engulf and destroy them through phagocytosis.

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