How to Use passive immunity in a Sentence

passive immunity

noun

• The idea is relatively simple, and based on the concept of passive immunity.
  — Alice Park, Time, 26 Mar. 2020
• Thus, for their first 6 months, babies are protected against the disease, and become vulnerable as that passive immunity wanes.
  — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 6 July 2021
• But passive immunity doesn't last as long as active immunity, and loses effectiveness within a few weeks or months, per the CDC.
  — Leah Groth, Health.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• But there is also the possibility the vaccine might even confer benefits to the breastfeeding child through passive immunity, according to the ABM.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
• In passive immunity, a person doesn’t make their own antibodies but receives them from another source.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Again, this suggests vaccinated mothers could be giving their babies passive immunity against the virus.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• Other vaccines cause such temporary passive immunity in infants, including the shot for measles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• How long this passive immunity lasts helps inform the immunization schedule.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
• Mothers typically pass antibodies to their newborns through the placenta during the last three months of pregnancy, which provides the baby with passive immunity.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• It was later understood this temporary protective effect was due to passive immunity.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
• While active immunity occurs when an individual produces antibodies to a disease through his or her own immune system, passive immunity is provided when a person is given antibodies.
  — Leah Groth, Health.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• Active immunity is more enduring than passive immunity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020

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