Usage of "population immunity"

A form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through infection or vaccination, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune.

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Examples for "community immunity"

At the time, California's vaccination rates were below the 94 percent threshold needed to establish community immunity for measles. 
 Wired 

A much better term is " community immunity". 
 The Irish Times 

Call it community immunity. 
 Wired 

Health authorities say the country has lost herd immunity against the disease. 
 Radio NZ 

Second, vaccination would likely elicit herd immunity, which would benefit all ages. 
 The Guardian 

And that's one of the huge problems of attaining herd immunity naturally. 
 News.com.au 

Normally herd immunity is achieved by vaccinating people, not through deliberate infection. 
 News.com.au 

And hopes of a natural ' herd immunity' forming among survivors may be fading. 
 News.com.au 

Our findings suggest a transmissible RNA pathway, playing a role in social immunity and signaling between members of the hive. 
 Pubmed 

Uso de population immunity em inglês

It is crucially important that high levels of population immunity are maintained against polio in the foreseeable future. 
 Pubmed 

The level of population immunity to the lineage of Zika in Asia remains unknown, according to the World Health Organization. 
 Reuters 

Such an event is a potential global health concern because of the waning population immunity to H2 hemagglutinin (HA). 
 Pubmed 

AM: First of all can I just say that it's actually a very complex inter relationship between the vectors, temperature, climate, and population immunities. 
 Radio NZ 

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Significados de population immunity em inglês