# Immunity in Humans vs. Immunity in Germs and Insects

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 19, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immunity-in-humans-vs-immunity-in-germs-and-insects/182941 "2003-06-19T15:55:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immunity-in-humans-vs-immunity-in-germs-and-insects/182941/1 "2003-06-19T15:55:36Z")

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why is it that bacteria as a species can become immune to an antibiotic (like the skin-eating bacteria the mutated due to anitbiotics) and roaches and other insects as species can become immune to certain insectocides; but humans as a species can’t (that i know of) become immune to common pathogens?