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Immunity to the virus would not kick in until two weeks after the second shot.
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Immunity to the virus would finally kick in two weeks after that.
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HSE, however, were resistant to plenty of disease-causing agents other than the H. simplex virus, suggesting that innate immunity could be specific, too.
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In his weekly radio address Saturday, President Obama said the concerns over the new virus are justified because lack of immunity makes it potentially risky.
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Typically, about 70-90 percent of adults who get vaccinated will develop complete immunity to the chicken pox virus.
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What pandemics have in common is that they all feature novel strains of the virus to which people have not developed immunity.
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"To start with, we'll take 15 volunteers, with no immunity to the particular flu virus and infect five of them, " he said.
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Some believe that it was the constant exposure to the virus which allowed them to develop the immunity, and on stopping work, they became vulnerable.
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And because it's a relatively new virus, most dogs don't have immunity to resist it.
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Because swine flu is a new virus, no one in the world had immunity to it when it came on the scene earlier this year, so it is spreading quickly.
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In 1957, when flu swept through Hong Kong, Mr Hilleman identified the virus as a new form to which people had no natural immunity and passed on his findings to vaccine-makers.
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When eaten, the virus is taken up in the lymphatic tissue in the throat, and immunity to rabies develops.
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The Sabin vaccine actually helped boost immunity in communities beyond the individual because people shed the weakened virus in their feces.
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