Passive immunity: why it is needed, how it is formed and who needs it.
What is passive immunity? Immunity is our body's ability to fight infections, diseases and toxins. There are two main types of immunity that protect us from life-threatening microorganisms: active and passive. The difference between these two types is that active immunity provides our body with the first reaction to a problem: protective blood cells begin to find and destroy microbes, and immune proteins actively bind to pathogenic particles and neutralize them. The active immune response pathway is initiated after a pathogen attacks our physiology and is unable to function without the host. Passive immunity does not have its own protective mechanisms; such immunity helps us with