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what is immunity?

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what is immunity?..

Answer / ravikumar

immunity is the restance our body aganist foregin pathogens
and it may be natural immunity or artificially accquired
through vaccines and sera and it is mediated through
T-lymphocytes[cell mediated immunity]/B-lymphocytes[humoral
immunity]

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what is immunity?..

Answer / vinod

resistance power against microbial diseases.

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what is immunity?..

Answer / masood ahmad

Short Answer:
Resistance of an organism to infection or disease.

Detail:
When you have an immunity to something, it means that your
body can fight that disease or infection without you knowing
it.When you get sick, your body is fighting off a disease
and you feel symptoms depending on what that illness is.
Being immune to a disease means that your body is able to
kill the germs without causing any symptoms.

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what is immunity?..

Answer / masood ahmad

1. resistance to disease: a body's ability to resist a
disease. Immunity may exist naturally or as a result of
inoculation or previous infection. In active immunity, the
body itself produces appropriate antibodies and lymphocytes,
while in passive immunity, antibodies are introduced from
another source, as from mother to fetus.
immunity to smallpox

2. freedom from responsibility or punishment: exemption or
protection from something unpleasant, e.g. a duty or
penalty, to which others are subject
immunity from deportation

3. criminal law exemption from prosecution: an exemption
from prosecution for somebody who has knowledge of possible
criminal activity and may be personally culpable, offered in
exchange for giving sufficient information to the police or
to a grand jury