Why Can't Your Immune System Fight Off the Toxins in Most

question 34

Multiple Choice

Why can't your immune system fight off the toxins in most venoms?

• A) It probably could if it had time to, but the toxins act too quickly.
• B) Your immune has never seen venom before unless you've been bitten before, so there are no memory cells to get to work.
• C) The venom does not have antigens like normal pathogenic cells so it is invisible to the immune system.
• D) Because a toxin isn't a cell, B cells and T cells don't recognize it as an invader.
• E) Toxins are generally from reptiles and because we're mammals, our immune systems simply don't know what to make of a reptile product.

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