Citations:collective immunity


 * 1971, Medical Journal:
 * Since many vaccines can also produce collective immunity if more than 55% to 75% of the endangered population has been vaccinated, it is the task of the health service to exceed this percentage, vaccinating at the earliest possible age and sustaining the immunity by revaccination.
 * 1986, Frederick C. Ross, Introductory Microbiology:
 * Research has indicated that there is a point (characteristic of each type of disease) at which the collective immunity of the population serves as protection for susceptible individuals.
 * 2005, Orthopoxviruses Pathogenic for Humans:
 * Nevertheless, it was demonstrated that smallpox transmission could continue even among the population with a high collective immunity to smallpox.
 * 2014, Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation:
 * Those of us who draw on collective immunity owe our health to our neighbors.