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Oh dear.
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So apparently your roommate has been rushed to the hospital after suffering a severe reaction to a bee sting in the hospital.
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After she was treated and released, she asks you as the local biology expert to explain what happened.
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Apparently, previous bee stings did not give her any reactions whatsoever.
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So now it's up to you to explain what has happened that might have caused that severe allergic reaction and why she did not have reactions to previous bee stings.
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So one hypothesis is that your roommate's previous bee stings have caused her to become sensitized to the allergens in bee venom.
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So sensitization is scientifically defined as a non -associative learning process in which a repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response.
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So the more be -stings your roommate has had in the past, so the repeated administration of a bee sting, that's the stimulus, is going to result in a progressive amplification of a response.
01:21
So from no allergic reactions to a severe allergic reaction...