Thursday, May 13, 2010

Response to Vaccines Could Depend on Your Sex, Researchers Find

According to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a person's sex could predict how they respond to different vaccines. Sabra Klein, assistant professor at the Bloomberg School's W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, says that this is probably because women sometimes do not need as much of a certain vaccine as a man would. Women usually have "stronger immune responses to vaccinations."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100512164337.htm

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