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The same technology that has produced the human insulin in bacteria can make viruses that will not only protect you against themselves, but induce immunity against other viruses.
And it's not our fault, anymore than it's our fault when our germs lay waste to people that haven't developed the immunity.
We have an immunity to all of the junk that lies around the edges of our culture.
But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
And so by applying ancient DNA sequencing and protein mass spectrometry technologies to ancient dental calculus, we can generate immense quantities of data that then we can use to begin to reconstruct a detailed picture of the dynamic interplay between diet, infection and immunity thousands of years ago.
Sustained stress leads to suppressed immunity.
I grew up as the daughter of Indian immigrants visiting my cousins in India every summer, and because I had no immunity to the local malarias, I was made to sleep under this hot, sweaty mosquito net every night while my cousins, they were allowed to sleep out on the terrace and have this nice, cool night breeze wafting over them.
It kills off bacteria and molds and other germs within the colony, and so it bolsters the colony health and their social immunity.
And then the third part, the shifting the norms, and that means a whole bunch of community activities, remodeling, public education, and then you've got what you might call group immunity.
This indirect protection that the unvaccinated people within a community receive simply by being surrounded by vaccinated people, is called herd immunity.
Many people in the community depend almost exclusively on this herd immunity to be protected against disease.
All these people depend almost exclusively on herd immunity to be protected against diseases.
To achieve this effect of herd immunity, it is necessary that a large percentage of the population be vaccinated.
In my laboratory, we isolated a gene for immunity to a very serious bacterial disease in Asia and Africa.
Now, the same month that my laboratory published our discovery on the rice immunity gene, my friend and colleague Dave Mackill stopped by my office.
And through constant surveillance over time, the immune system provides another benefit: it helps us develop long-term immunity.
That’s how you can develop immunity to certain diseases, like chickenpox.
So for example, if people have some level of immunity to the disease, then they can develop an infection and become infectious and still pass it on, but not actually develop any symptoms, and that can be a big problem because how do you find those people - it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
So, for example, if people have some level of immunity to the disease, then they can develop an infection and become infectious and still pass it on but not actually develop any symptoms, and that can be a big problem, because how do you find those people?
And if you don't do that, they lose their potency, and they no longer confer the immunity the child deserves.
He had said, in January, that he would not sign a bill that granted telecom immunity for possibly warrantless spying on American persons.
You had to find every single case of smallpox in the world at the same time, and draw a circle of immunity around it.
But I said we can't get rid of it, because all the people who tried to transplant heart valves found out you can't get rid of that immunity.
It's a very serious infection in them, as they get a higher dose than normal people, and at the same time, they have no immunity.
So we're trying to make vaccines where we add adjuvants that actually make the vaccine create better immunity than the disease, so that we can confer immunity for many years.
Around this point herd immunity kicks in, where the virus can no longer find new hosts.
But there’s another way to create herd immunity without such a high cost of life.
Once 40-90% of the population has received it— the precise amount varying based on the virus— herd immunity kicks in, and the pandemic fizzles out.
This is live HIV virus at Harvard Medical School, who is working with the U.S. Government to develop sterilizing immunity.
So even with partial subsidy, three dollars is still not the full cost of a bed net, and now you only have 20 percent of the people with the bed nets, you lose the health immunity, that's not great.
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