What happens if our lymph nodes are badly damaged and can they stop producing white blood cells? What would happen if

Question: What happens if our lymph nodes are badly damaged and can they stop producing white blood cells? What would happen if this occurred?
- Keywords:
  immune system,
  lymph node,
  white blood cells
Asked by pavan to Laura on 9 Mar 2015.
- Laura Garcia Ibanez answered on 9 Mar 2015:
  
  White blood cells are produced in the bone marrow and lymph nodes and spleen facilitate the encounter with antigens.
  Except for T lymphocytes, whose final development occurs in the thymus.
  I am not very sure what would happen if the lymph nodes are so badly damaged but I reckon spleen would take over. There are people who are able to live without spleen (it is damaged due to traffic accidents mainly).

Question: What happens if our lymph nodes are badly damaged and can they stop producing white blood cells? What would happen if this occurred?