The Beautiful Immune System Lesson 2: Protective Immunity
When our bodies become sick with a virus, bacteria, fungi, parasite, etc., our adaptive immune system, the one that “remembers” […]
When our bodies become sick with a virus, bacteria, fungi, parasite, etc., our adaptive immune system, the one that “remembers” […]
We classify all of the body’s immune reactions into two types of immunity: innate and adaptive. Under each category are
I don’t know about you, but I REMEMBER getting the chickenpox as a young child. It was itchy and awful.
A vaccine’s main goal is to teach your immune system to recognize and remember a bacteria or virus. The word
Many years ago, parents would use the “pickle test” to determine if a child had the mumps. Since the mumps