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- 00:00
smell and here's your schmuck douche or brought to you by dangerous diseases
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they're catching on fast so make sure to wash your hands wash your hands all [men at bus stop, sneezing]
- 00:11
right check out the following passage the immune system named in a structured [text on screen]
- 00:15
process inside the body in particular really it's an autoimmune submitter
- 00:19
enemy the enemy I should attacking healthy cell to know
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- 00:23
I'm healthy primary treatment an immune suppression immuno suppression is a
- 00:31
risky course of treatment because what and here the potential answers [answers on screen]
- 00:37
acceptable our immune systems are like miniature armies they work inside our
- 00:46
bodies to fight off disease but certain diseases can cause the armies to turn [immune system with helmet, punching germs]
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against itself immunosuppression can fight these diseases but it's risky [immune system fights itself]
- 00:55
why well there's nothing in the passage that says that immunosuppression causes
- 01:01
cancer smoking sunlight and apparently the black stuff on toast do but this text [burnt toasts jumps out of toaster]
- 01:05
doesn't indicate immunosuppression causes cancer Sophie is incorrect
- 01:09
similarly the passage doesn't imply that immunosuppression causes AIDS age is an
- 01:15
autoimmune disease that can be treated with immunosuppression it just doesn't [doctor talking with patient]
- 01:20
make sense to treat a disorder with something that causes it so C is also
- 01:24
incorrect and the passage says nothing about immunosuppression rarely working
- 01:28
given that it's the most common treatment for autoimmune disorders you'd
- 01:31
assume it sometimes has to work this isn't Jack in the Beanstalk
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people don't just go out getting things done - so he is also app the only [jack receives a bag of beans from farmer]
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logical assumption from the text is expressed in option A suppressing the
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immune system would reduce the body's resistance to [immune system in prison]
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diseases hence placing patients at greater risk so option a is the correct [grave yard]
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answer but luckily in this day and age we don't have any dangerous diseases to
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worry about oh wait no be careful out there folks [unhappy man reading newspaper]
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