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When there is a delay between infection with a virus and development of effective immunity can you be infected again with the same virus and would it make a difference?
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∙ 13y ago
For all intents and purposes, there would be no difference. You would not actually be "infected again" by the same virus, you would just have more virus particles in your body perhaps involving more of your cells. That could make you feel sicker, but you don't really have what would be called a new infection, just more of the same causative organisms joined in the battle with your immune system. Once your body's development of the right antibodies for that virus catches up, it will kill all of the viruses you have in your body at that time. Therefore, the duration of your symptoms will not be lengthened by the interim contact with more of the same virus.
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