Inflammation is the body's natural defensive response to tissue damage, viruses, and bacteria, governed primarily by the immune system which dispatches white blood cells to affected sites, causing redness, swelling, or fever.

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  How Inflammation Affects Your Health | News - Yale Medicine

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