The immune response to viral infection comprises innate and adaptive defenses. The innate response, which we have discussed previously, functions continuously in a normal host without exposure to any virus. Most viral infections are controlled by the innate immune system.
The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain white supremacy..
The Ku Klux Klan was the name of a number of secret societies in the past and present. The original KKK was started in the aftermath of the Civil War, when the Southern ex-Confederates were bitter over their defeat, impoverished from the collapse of its agricultural economy due to not having a slave...