The traditional advice given by usage commentators is that you become immune to a disease or a drug, as in the above examples, but immune from something when the object is some kind of obligation or duty, such as taxation, or something that can happen to you, such as prosecution.

2017 Immune to vs Immune From: Can it Get You? Christina Quinn, in PBS Newshour, 12 Sept. Over time, this would reduce the prevalence of the disease. The idea is that when the genetically engineered mice mate with the native mice, their offspring would also be immune to Lyme disease. In medical contexts, immune means 'having a high degree of resistance to a disease or the effects of a drug or chemical': 2017įor the first time in its history, the Court declares an entire class of offenders immune from a noncapital sentence using the categorical approach it previously reserved for death penalty cases alone.

Wendy Connick, Associated Press, 14 Sept. Immune has a number of meanings, including 'free, exempt' and 'marked by protection':Īs long as the Roth has been open for at least five years prior to your death, the money in that account is immune from federal income taxes.

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