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What does the term 'memory' of the immune system mean?

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After the human body has recovered from a disease, B-lymphocytes produce memory cells that remain silent in the blood and attack the disease causing organism if it invades again. This second response is much quicker than the first response. As a result symptoms of the disease do not appear.
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