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Interesting. Does this mean that in the "too small a load" case that you do not develop any immunity to future infection? Do you have any links with more info

• Izkata 6y ago
  My description above is a bit of a simplification since I'm still picking this knowledge up myself - I have no specific links, it's pretty much what you'd find on Wikipedia or others' comments on here. In particular, one example of something I think I phrased badly above is antibody generation not happening immediately. I remember people saying that getting tested for antibodies right after they recover few to none are found, but a week or two later they start reliably testing positive. This tells me that yes antibodies do start getting created pretty quickly, but takes a while to reach critical mass and become effective (but it doesn't matter because the innate immune system worked effectively enough).