Short-term limitation.
"Faulty Memory: Long-term immunity isn't always beneficial" (SN: 9/27/03, p. 196) makes a common error. Whereas chicken pox chicken pox or varicella (vâr'əsĕl`ə), infectious disease usually occurring in childhood. It is believed to be caused by the same herpesvirus that produces shingles. is caused by one virus, a "cold" is a set of symptoms that can be caused by more than 200 distinct viruses. A better example for short-term immunity might have been pertussis pertussis: see whooping cough. or tetanus.
JENNIFER L. BANKERS-FULBRIGHT, MAYO CLINIC, ROCHESTER, MINN MINN Minnesota (old style) .
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