IMMUNOLOGY

OVERVIEW OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

THE GOOD BAD AND UGLY OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How are vaccinations able to help us develop immunity?
A
Exposure to disease creates antibodies which make us immune
B
Exposure to antibodies which makes us the disease immune to us
C
Exposure to immunity’s which make us antibodies to the disease
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -How vaccines help. Vaccines contain weakened or inactive parts of a particular organism (antigen) that triggers an immune response within the body. Newer vaccines contain the blueprint for producing antigens rather than the antigen itself.

Detailed explanation-2: -When you get a vaccine, it sparks your immune response, helping your body fight off and remember the germ so it can attack it if the germ ever invades again. And since vaccines are made of very small amounts of weak or dead germs, they won’t make you sick.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease. Immunization: A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination. This term is often used interchangeably with vaccination or inoculation.

Detailed explanation-4: -The principle of vaccination is to produce immunity against a disease.

Detailed explanation-5: -The basic principle of vaccination is ‘memory’ of the immune system. Vaccines let the immune system to learn how to fight the future onslaught of that pathogen for which vaccine is being given. The body prepares antibodies in response to vaccination and remembers this act.

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