stackyFACTSWhile your innate immune system panics, your adaptive immune system takes its sweet time playing microscopic chess. It takes roughly a week for your cells to analyze an invader, custom-engineer the perfect antibody, and clone an army to fight it. You feel miserable for days strictly because of biological bureaucratic lag.
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