Geography, Age and Anemia Shape Childhood Vaccine Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Geography, Age and Anemia Shape Childhood Vaccine Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa (3 of 4)

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The immune system heats up with age: how and when immune cells change was found to occur differently in Tanzanian and Dutch children. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 5, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.L. Hill at Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK; and colleagues was titled, "Immune system development varies according to age, location, and anemia in African children."

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Dr. Danika Hill

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