AVOID BECOMING SICK! By Rashida Raji-Siwoku. MSc Pharma, BSc and Licensed Herbalist in Traditional Herbal General Practice. Check out immune cells in action. Where two bacteria that cause gonorrhea are no match for the large phagocyte, called a neutrophil, that engulfs and kills them (see arrows). Photo credit: Micheal N. Starnbach. PH.D Harvard Medical  University.  From experience , it’s never the weather that causes cold or flu.  The secret I have found to avoid cold & flu in the first place is at the first sign of a tickly or  itchy throat . It’s your immune function saying I need some extra attention.   Scientists at Harvard University have uncovered that…