What did the Latin term Immunitas mean in the second century BC?
A privilege of exemption from taxes or collective services.
Immunitas Latin meaning
Exemption privileges, like taxes or services
When did modern immunology emerge as a science?
At the end of the nineteenth century.
End of 19th-century
Modern immunology emerged then
In which year did the Plague of Athens cause about 40,000 deaths?
430 BC
430 BC plague
Caused ~40,000 deaths in Athens
Which virus caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic?
H1N1 influenza virus
1918 flu
H1N1 virus, over 50 million deaths
Germ theory proponents
Pasteur and Koch proved microorganisms cause diseases
Humoral immunity
Uses circulating soluble factors
Innate barriers
First line of defense, physical and chemical
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1. What did the Latin legal term immunitas mean in the second century BC?
2. What does the Latin term 'immunitas' originally refer to in its historical context?
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