The Immune System / The Immune System in Action

Introduction

AIDS researchers continue to make progress in battling HIV, addressing the fight with a variety of new and promising approaches...but this presentation isn't about the fight against the AIDS virus. We instead take a look at the battlefield where the fight takes place, putting you into the world of the immune system. A mumps virus enters the body, then enters a cell. There it makes copies of itself. How does the immune system respond? It's up to you to figure it out. A play-by-play explanation will follow, as well as an explanation of what makes an attack by the AIDS virus unique...and devastating

The immune system fights one of the many battles that it engages in each and every day to keep the body healthy.