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Immunitas → epidemics → contagion → vaccination → immunology
1. What did the Latin legal term immunitas mean in the second century BC?
2. When did modern immunology emerge as a scientific discipline?
3. What happened during the Plague of Athens in 430 BC?
What did the Latin term Immunitas mean in the second century BC?
A privilege of exemption from taxes or collective services.
When did modern immunology emerge as a science?
At the end of the nineteenth century.
In which year did the Plague of Athens cause about 40,000 deaths?
430 BC
Which virus caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic?
H1N1 influenza virus
Immunitas Latin meaning
Exemption privileges, like taxes or services
End of 19th-century
Modern immunology emerged then
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