Fundamentals of the Human Body Immunity System

Scholarly Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: A, Atlantic International University (Social Studies and Humanities), course: Public Health Immunology, language: English, comment: The foundations of immunology can be traced from the early scientists such as Edward Jenner 1796, and Neisser 1879 that studied the response of the human body towards foreign organisms and the first inoculation of the human pathogen respectively. On to these contributors also pasture and the germ theory movement scientists can be considered as pillars in the establishing the basis and concepts of the subject of body immunity (York, 1996) , abstract: In so many cases, we have been accustomed to the phrase "prevention is better than cure" yet in so many cases, we find ourselves victims of disease that in so many instances, we are not sure how we came to contract them but instead we embark on treatment after which we forget knowing about them. It does not require extensive knowledge to realize that our body systems have inbuilt immune mechanisms by which humans survive the prevalent infections caused by the common bacteria located in almost every environment of man's involvement. The fact of immunity is not an artificial health aspect built on man's innovations in science but rather a natural fundamental of human life and therefore this provides the basis of preventive health and immunization. Body immunity refers to the process or phenomenon through or by which the living body system is capable of identifying, isolating the foreign intruding harmful microorganisms and destroy or disarm them of the toxins that would be hazardous to the normal functioning of the body. The ability of the body to activate immunity against harmful microbes determines the health status of an individual and this is the foundation of immunology which is a perspective study directed against infectious disease spread in human communities. Immunology, which is a basic subject in med