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Her immune system reacted badly to all the shots: they made her sick.†
p. 61.7 *

immune = not in danger of suffering from something OR relating to disease resistance
Whatever these Ebola proteins do, they seem to target the immune system for special attack.†
p. 66.1
In this they are like my, which also destroys the immune system, but unlike the creeping onset of my, the attack by Ebola is explosive.†
p. 66.1
As Ebola sweeps through you, your immune system fails, and you seem to lose your ability to respond to viral attack.†
p. 66.2
Their immune systems had failed or gone haywire.†
p. 77.9
The spleen is a kind of bag that filters the blood, and it plays a role in the immune system.†
p. 171.8
Any "realistic" review of the AIDS virus when it was first appearing in Africa would probably have led experts and government officials to conclude that the virus was of little significance for human health and that scarce research funds should not be allocated to it—after all, it was just a virus that infected a handful of Africans, and all it did was suppress their immune systems.†
p. 244.7
In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species.†
p. 406.8
The earth's immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in.†
p. 407.4

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