English Dictionary

herd immunity

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhəːd ɪˈmjuːnɪti/

名詞

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(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.

日本語の意味

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。

Achieving herd immunity through vaccination remains the most effective way to protect vulnerable people and reduce the spread of the disease.

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。

意味（1）

(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.

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.

herd immunities （ plural ）