herd immunity

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈhəːd ɪˈmjuːnɪti/

Noun

countable uncountable

(epidemiology) The indirect protection against the spread of a contagious disease in a given population caused by the immunity of a significant proportion of the population to that particular disease; the immunity may have been obtained through having survived the infection or through vaccination.

Japanese Meaning

集団免疫：全体の一定割合の人が感染症に対する免疫を持つことで、感染が広がるのを間接的に防ぐ現象。感染による回復や予防接種によって得られた免疫が基盤となる。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ワクチン接種によって集団免疫を達成することは、脆弱な人々を守り、病気の感染拡大を抑える最も効果的な方法であり続けます。

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During the years that the herd was being replenished by purchase abortions were frequent, but that practice was discontinued, and the heifer calves born in the herd have been raised. … Thus a herd immunity seems to have developed as a result both of keeping the aborting cows and raising the calves.

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herd immunities

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