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To: Sdgla who wrote (59898)	10/29/2014 4:01:51 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Yes, blood transfusions work. Peer-reviewed medical science in action. Passive immunity is the transfer of active humoral immunity in the form of ready-made antibodies, from one individual to another. Passive immunity can occur naturally, when maternal antibodies are transferred to the fetus through the placenta, and can also be induced artificially, when high levels of human (or horse) antibodies specific for a pathogen or toxin are transferred to non- immune individuals. Passive immunization is used when there is a high risk of infection and insufficient time for the body to develop its own immune response, or to reduce the symptoms of ongoing or immunosuppressive diseases. [1] History and applications of artificial passive immunity[ edit] In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin showed that the clinical effects of diphtheria were caused by diphtheria toxin and, following the 1890 discovery of an antitoxin-based immunity to diphtheria and tetanus by Emil Adolf von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburo, antitoxin became the first major success of modern therapeutic immunology en.wikipedia.org