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salexa ([personal profile] salexa) wrote in [personal profile] kalmn 2010-11-25 09:00 pm (UTC)

Part of the reason you haven't gotten mumps is the exposure. One thing that helps maintain immunity is envirnmental exposure that reminds the immune system that it really should be fighting that. That is part of the reason that it is pretty much presumed (from what I have seen) that no one will be immune to smallpox without further vaccine... no one has been exposed to it since the early 70's.

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