• Question: when a women is pregnant do they have the same immune system?

    Asked by Mariiiabou to Carmen, Daniel, Laura, Noel, Steph on 11 Mar 2015.
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      Noel Carter answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Essentially yes. There is some suggestion that in pregnancy the immune system is suppressed a little so that the immune system doesn’t attack the baby. This is as yet not fully proven and a current topic of research

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