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Aside from vaccination what are the other uses of immunology?
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Too many to list: Progress in immunology has contributed to improvements in health through: improved diagnostics, therapeutic antibodies, immune treatment of tumors, auto-immune disease diagnosis and treatment, organ transplantation, elucidation of susceptibility to infections and tumors, prevention of hemolytic disease of fetus and newborn, blood transfusions, and a whole lot more.
Answered 7/4/2020
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