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Re:Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CD... by frank2 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:04AM (#22820651)
>The big "eating" cells (do not know the proper english name)

macrophage

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Re:Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CD... by hutzlibu on Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:37AM (#22820786)
Ok, I edited eating cells to killer cells, before you replied. Because with a quick look on english and german wikipedia, I found a bit contradicting information. Anyway, my first post was more right as the macrophage cells are indeed a first line of the defense and killer cells come later (ca. 3 days).

So .. I leave this debate to more knowing persons.

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Re:Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CD... by imagine99 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:19AM (#22820704)
>macrophage

That's arguably Greek ;-)

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Re:Coronavirus May ‘Reactivate’ in Cured Patients, Korean CD... by teddyh on Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:44AM (#22820813)
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

— James Davis Nicoll

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