For instance why does the body display differently if a person contracts the Mumps vs. something like Ebola?
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Because different pathogens cause different immune responses. Diseases have evolved with us, adapting to us as we have adapted to them. Something that is infecting us doesn’t want to kill us, because that means it will die, and it doesn’t want us to kill them. We have multiple different ways to fight off infections. Think of it like a home security system, where we have an alarm, guard dogs, motion sensors, floodlights, armed guards, the police on speed dial, all of it. Some disease tries to steal from us, and they’re kind of good at breaking in, so they only set off the alarm and the floodlights. But then other pathogens come in and kick open the door and yell “THIS IS A ROBBERY!” and every home security thing we have goes off and it’s intense and chaotic and unpleasant.
I think I kind of went in and out of that analogy, but hopefully you get the idea.
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