Why does the body produce pus?

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Why does the body produce pus when you get a skin infection or a zit? To me it just seems like a counter-productive reaction as it often has to be drained in order to heal well.

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My MD dad used to call it “laudable pus”, something they taught him in med school

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538214/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538214/)

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