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herd immunities

herd immunities is the plural of herd immunity.

Meaning of herd immunity

Noun

herd immunity (countable and uncountable, plural herd immunities)

  1. 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...1917 January, Adolph Eichhorn, George M. Potter, “Prevention and Treatment”, in Contagious Abortion of Cattle (United States Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin; 790), Washington, D.C....

Questions about herd immunities

What is herd immunities the plural of?
Herd immunities is the plural of herd immunity.

Words near herd immunities in the dictionary

  1. herd behaviour
  2. herd behaviours
  3. herd boar
  4. herd boars
  5. herd cats
  6. herd immunities
  7. herd immunity
  8. herd instinct
  9. herd mentalities
  10. herd mentality
  11. herd path

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