The Benefits of Targeting Parasites

For bacteria and viruses that are extremely small, your immune system has cells that can effectively gobble up those pathogens. But there's a separate branch of your immune system that deals with parasites or worms. There are specialised cells called mass cells stuffed full of granules and toxic proteins that they can release to repel or kill the invading worm or parasite. And where are these mass cells? Throughout your body, but they're the sort of places you might expect if you were to plan on a defense. They patrol around looking for trouble and trying to sort it out. When they see it, they release the proteins, repel or killed the invading bug and that should be that.