If you come down with a streptococcal bacterial infection that results in your getting strep throat, you are likely to suffer from a fever, sore throat, headache, nausea, and even vomiting.At least one of these symptoms may be useful to your recovery because
A) the high temperature of a fever is an adaptive immune response that can bring phagocytes to the area.
B) the high temperature of a fever is an innate immune response that can inhibit bacterial growth.
C) the pain of the sore throat causes prostaglandins to be secreted as part of the innate immune response, decreasing the sensitivity to pain.
D) the pain of the sore throat causes prostaglandins to be secreted as part of the adaptive immune response, mobilizing phagocytes to the area.
E) vomiting is part of an adaptive immune response, reducing the bacterial load of your stomach and upper digestive tract.
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