Synopsis
How our bodies respond and repair when we are injured.
- Programme: The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed
- Episode: Survive
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Biology | Infection and response | Treating, curing and preventing disease | The body's defence mechanisms
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