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Article: Antibiotics, vaccines aid body's immune system
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- December 27, 2008
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All human beings get sick on occasion. It's so common that we
build sickness into our schedules, in the form of "sick time." We
can't really predict when it will happen, but sickness happens to
everyone.
And sickness comes in many forms. The two most common causes of
sickness are viruses and bacteria. We hear about these things all
the time. On the virus side, there are cold viruses, flu viruses,
tetanus, smallpox, mumps, measles, polio and many more. On the
bacteria side, there are all kinds of bacterial infections such as
skin infections, lung infections, urinary tract infections and so
on.
Your body has an immune system that works well to eliminate
sickness. For example, if you catch a ...