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To: elmatador who wrote (53490)8/12/2009 4:21:08 PM
From: Gib Bogle  Read Replies (1) of 218057
 
The typical course of an adaptive immune response is about 10 days. The rare cognate T cells become activated in lymph nodes and start proliferating. The rate of activated T cells leaving the lymph nodes and returning to the circulation peaks after 4 or 5 days, then declines as the infection is cleared. Presumably antibody production follows a similar course, since helper T cells are involved in the activation of B cells.

Often people think that something they did got rid of the flu, but it was just their immune system doing it's job, which takes time. The first T cell division (for a naive, i.e. non-memory cell) takes about 24 hrs, while subsequent divisions take 6-8 hours. As doctors will tell you, drugs are ineffective against viruses. I'm certain this applies to folk medicines.
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