What happens when you get sick?

Have you had a chickenpox or measles, cold, an ear infection, or the flu? If so, your body was under attack!

When you get sick, tiny germs called viruses or bacteria attack different parts of your body. Some of these germs travel from person to person in the drops of fluid that shoot out of your mouth when you sneeze or cough. Some are spread in food and water. These germs can make you feel sick.

Luckily your body fights back. And sometimes medicine helps your body fight the germs.

After you have been sick with certain illnesses, your body remembers the germs. If one of the germs tries to attack again, your body destroys it as soon as it enters your body. That’s why you usually get some illnesses, like chickenpox, only once.

You can get some illnesses, like colds and the flu, over and over again. This is because there are so many kinds of cold and flu viruses. If a new virus invades your body, your body does not know that virus, and so you get sick.

Do your parents tell you to cover your nose and mouth and when you sneeze? That’s because when you sneeze, tiny drops of fluid spray out of your mouth. Tiny germs travel in that fluid and can make other people sick too.

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