8 1) In the 2015 Ebola virus outbreak doctors gave Ebola virus-infected individu

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8 1) In the 2015 Ebola virus outbreak doctors gave Ebola virus-infected individuals serum survivors to confer protection from disease. This is an example of CIRCLE YOUR (4 points) A. Naturally acquired active immunity B. Naturally acquired passive immunity C. Naturally acquired innate immunity D. Artificially acquired active immunity E. Artificially acquired passive immunity 8 ili) Justify your answer to 8 () (6 points) 9 All complement proteins circulate freely in the blood throughout the body. Why is there no risk of these proteins attacking healthy cells? (8 points) 10 When you get a bacterial infection in your finger from a wooden splinter, your doctor tells you that your cellular immune response by T cells was initiated in your thymus. Do you agree or disagree? Justify your answer. (10 points)

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1a) Artificially acquired passive immunity

1b)  When serum containing antibodies from recovered patients of a disease are transferred to suffering patients, it is called as artificially acquired passive immunity. When inactivated antigens are transferred to a person artificially and the person develops antibodies against the disease, it is artificially acquired active immunity. When maternal antibodies are transferred to the newborn, it is naturally acquired passive immunity. When a person a person is exposed to pathogen and develops antibodies on his own, it is naturally acquired active immunity.

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