2007-05-14 05:39:56 · 2 answers · asked by Kaila R 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
We become immune to disease by actually being exposed to the disease because your bodies have anti-bodies that is shaped similar to the disease and they act them when they first encounter them. For example in order to be immune from chicken pox you have to have them first. Then your body is will get used to that disease and then you can't get it any more.
2007-05-14 05:49:58 · answer #1 · answered by Timah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Repeated exposure get the immune system active. That way the antibodies (disease fighters) are always present in the blood; so that when the active virus or other organism comes along your 'soldiers' are standing ready to fight.
This of course is a non-technical explanation.
2007-05-14 05:48:03 · answer #2 · answered by robert2020 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋