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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]

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right check out the following passage the immune system named in a structured [text on screen]

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process inside the body in particular really it's an autoimmune submitter

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enemy the enemy I should attacking healthy cell to know

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I'm healthy primary treatment an immune suppression immuno suppression is a

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risky course of treatment because what and here the potential answers [answers on screen]

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acceptable our immune systems are like miniature armies they work inside our

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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]

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why well there's nothing in the passage that says that immunosuppression causes

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cancer smoking sunlight and apparently the black stuff on toast do but this text [burnt toasts jumps out of toaster]

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doesn't indicate immunosuppression causes cancer Sophie is incorrect

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similarly the passage doesn't imply that immunosuppression causes AIDS age is an

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autoimmune disease that can be treated with immunosuppression it just doesn't [doctor talking with patient]

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make sense to treat a disorder with something that causes it so C is also

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incorrect and the passage says nothing about immunosuppression rarely working

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given that it's the most common treatment for autoimmune disorders you'd

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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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