Flu Question.?
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My understanding (and I haven't researched this, just been told by nurses) is that influenza uses your body's cells to reproduce. It attaches itself to the cell and uses the cell like a little virus factory; then the cell bursts, releasing virus into your bloodstream, where it finds new body cells and starts over. Ouch!
Another, more technical, explanation is that your body produces proinflammatory and fever-causing cytokines (in other words, substances that cause inflammation and fever) to help combat the virus. And of course, inflammation and fever can hurt.
When you have any type of infection, the immune system (which fights off infection) is stimulated (unless it's auto-immune, or some retro-viruses).
This could be part of it . . . but, I think more likely is that viruses and bacteria, like any other living organism, secretes stuff . . . we do -- we sweat, poop, exhale, pee . . . but, when bacteria and viruses pee, poop, exhale, sweat . . . the stuff doesn't go outside . . . it goes into your body. . . these toxins cause all kinds of fun symptoms.
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