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Sorry this is incomplete, but "Natural Immunity" means a person's immune system will mount an effective response to an infectious agent. However, that person ma
by csours 5y ago
Sorry this is incomplete, but "Natural Immunity" means a person's immune system will mount an effective response to an infectious agent. However, that person may still be infected, and may be contagious to some degree while the body is fighting off the contagion.
I'm not a doctor or biologist, but I've been learning over the past year. For instance, people generally think of things like "infected", "sick", and "contagious" as being the same thing (or nearly the same thing). If you're talking about one person in everyday context, that's fine. If you're talking in a clinical or epidemiological context, you have to be more careful.
- jjtheblunt 5y agoA simple example is a person with antibodies being sneezed on with infectious agents. That person could coincidentally sneeze on another person who lacks antibodies, but wouldn't worsen themselves since the contagion in the original sneeze would get met with prepared antibodies killing off the "population" faster than it could replicate.