A cytokine storm, or hypercytokinemia is a potentially fatal immune reaction consisting of a positive feedback loop between cytokines and immune cells, with highly elevated levels of various cytokines.
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“I cannot think this creature died
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Walking the sea so heavily armed;
Or does it make for death to be
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—Andrew Young (18851971)