Does your body hold a Remembrance Day ceremony for those cells who died fighting viruses and bacteria?
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Yes...and platelets do a missing-man flyover...
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Hello Summerspirit,\n\nThanks for your question. I think this question deserved a better reponse than what it has received till now. Anyways, I'll try to compensate: \n\nFirst of all, neurons don't usually die at all. The neurons are the cells with the least regenerative powers in our body. Once killed, they cannot be replaced! But, as we grow older, some wear and tear is unavoidable and brain cells too are no exception to the wear and tear of ageing. \n\nStill, the brain cells are the last to die in our bodies as they are kept well oxygenated by an abundant blood supply.\n\nNow, the neuroglia cells that support the neurons are not as sustainable as the neurons and thus, are subject to regular wear and tear. So, there must be a path for them and other metabolic wastes to leave the brain, right? \n\nOur brain as opposed to popular conception is not a lump of matter floating in blood. It is floating alright but, not directly in blood. The brain floats in a colorless, transparent, plasma-like fluid called Cerebro-Spinal Fluid or CSF. The fluid provides a one way traffic from the cavities and membranes of the brain to the vein carrying used blood.\n\nSo, the CSF takes the dead brain-cells and flows towards a blood stream, then the waste matter is transferred to the blood.\n\nThe blood then takes the stuff to the kidneys which is known as the sieve of the human body. Kidney filters the metabolic waste from the blood to urine from where it is passed from the body.\n\nHope it helped to keep your summer spirit alive! Bye!
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I do not know all the organs or all the systems that this virus affects (infects), but speaking as a human, it is the closest I have ever come to praying for death.  I can say emphatically, you do not want the flu.
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yes, all cells in/on your body carry your DNA
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No- a virus and other bacteria need certain requirements to stay alive, so cannot stay alive outside the body for very long, and if blood is dry, it cannot survive.
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The Transgender day of Rememberance?  The Hiroshima rememberance?  you'll need to be more specific.  Thanks
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I used to work at a convalescence home, and part of my job was to clean up the people after they passed. They would continue to rid their bladder and bowels (if you know what I mean) for a while, then rigamortis(don't know how to spell it) sets in (when their body stiffens). I had to tie their mouths shut and cross their arms for the morgue. You could tell instantly that their spirit and soul left them. Defiantly an erie experience. I also believe that their spirit goes to an in-between place until God takes us all to heaven(or hell). So I think they look down on their loved ones like guardian angels.
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kill bacteria and viruses in the bloodstream
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Replicate everyday: epithelial cells (skin, mucosa), bone marrow progenitor cells, lymphocytes (some of them)\nDo not replicate: neurons, skeletal muscle cells, neutrophilic granulocytes, any terminally differentiated cell
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White blood cells are cells in the blood that fight infection; They are a part of the immune system.\n\nIf you have a 'little hight' white blood cell count, your body is probably fighting an infection. Your doctor is probably sending you to hemotologist to make sure you don't have an undetected infection.
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no viruses need host cells to invade...they inject their dna in to your cells to clone itself...with out a host it has no chance to clone...and viruses are complex chemicals which the scientific community accepts as nonliving
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The funniest part about a few of these answers are the people talking about having a healthy immune system. Has anybody ever heard of the worldwide outbreak of flu in 1918? Look into it. Learn from the past. The group it killed off the most was an unusual one. It was the younger, healthier people. It didn't follow the normal path of killing off the youngest, oldest, and weakest. \n\nWhy you ask? Because the younger, healthy, normally heartier people were the ones that had the STRONGEST immune system. The virus was just so bad that their young, healthy, strong immune systems overcompensated in fighting it off. Most of the time it was the persons own immune system that killed them off, not the virus. So if I were you people I wouldn't count on my immune system to save the day if there's another flu pandemic.\n\nI have been lenient in stocking up on food and water like I should. I have been stocking up on face masks, latex gloves, soap, Lysol spray, bleach, etc. though. I'm not hoping that I will be able to avoid getting the flu if a pandemic hits. It's my hope that my family and I will be able to avoid the peak of the waves it will come in. And *hopefully* avoid needing a hospital during a peak(as i'm sure at that point they will be quite useless). If it comes it comes, you can only avoid it for so long, and can't depend on a healthy immune system to save you. The main thing is to be focused on is increasing your, and you families, chances of surviving when you do get it. \n\nI hope I do not live to see the next flu pandemic. 1918, people. Study it. Learn from it.
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I just got back from Iraq and spent the day remembering the 3 who died in my company.  I looked at pictures and read emails from their families and sent them notes.  There were no parades here but many of us got out the flags and paid tribute to vets at cemetaries in the area.
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It is true, I am a nurses Aide and most times when a patient dies, all the muscles relax and body fluids are released. But not always.
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Not exactly. It is more likely that depression and stress weaken your immune system, which then fails to kill cancerous cells. Cells go cancerous in your body all the time, but are killed almost instantly most of the time.
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probably a poppy? it's because of remembrance day... it's a canadian holiday for the remembrance of soldiers that have served for canada in past wars.
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Yes.\n\nThe aliens die b/c of germs.