B

Explanation.. ???


why did you eliminate C ??

Although aspirin has been proven to eliminate moderate fever associated with some illnesses, many doctors no longer routinely recommend its use for this purpose. A moderate fever stimulates the activity of the body’s disease-fighting white blood cells and also inhibits the growth of many strains of disease-causing bacteria.
If the statements above are true, which of the following conclusions is most strongly supported by them?
(A) Aspirin, an effective painkiller, alleviates the pain and discomfort of many illnesses.
(B) Aspirin can prolong a patient’s illness by eliminating moderate fever helpful in fighting some diseases.
(C) Aspirin inhibits the growth of white blood cells, which are necessary for fighting some illnesses.
(D) The more white blood cells a patient’s body produces, the less severe the patient’s illness will be.
(E) The focus of modern medicine is on inhibiting the growth of disease-causing bacteria within the body.

Since you narrowed it down to between B and C, I am not going to look at the other options.

It is not C, because the option is way too extreme. No where in the passage does the author mention that Asprin completely prevents the formation of white blood cells. Also there is another piece of evidence that the author makes that a moderate fever stimulated the activity of disease fighting white blood cells, but can we infer that no white blood cells form when there is no fever?...nooo that's a wrong assumption.

Thus it is B.

Hope this explanation helped.

Can someone plz explain, why D is incorrect. last 3 lines did talk about D , then why it cant be the answer ?

I made this question wrong two times . But I understand finally

C is wrong because it is not inhibiting the growth of blood cells , it stops to produce even bigger numbers.

D is wrong because it says less severe the ilness will be but in the argument it mentions just a process . It never told that it eliminates severeness. Maybe it will be more severe but the body will heal more quickly.

The OA is B

It is understood from the question that doctors do not want to give patients asprin because it stops to to produce big numbers of blood cells and it says it inhibits many strains of bacteria . It can be said that taking aspirin can prolong the normal disease by eliminating to produce more the important cells.
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