OVERVIEW OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
THE GOOD BAD AND UGLY OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
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Because some diseases are too severe for our immune system.
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Because adaptive immunity takes days to weeks to initiate a response and sometimes it is too late.
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Because some people are immune deficient or have weak immune systems.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vaccination remains the safest strategy for avoiding hospitalizations, long-term health outcomes, and death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vaccines contain dead or weakened microbes of a particular disease. When a vaccine is introduced into a healthy body, the body fights and kills them by producing suitable antibodies. These antibodies remain in the body and protects it from the microbe when it invades the body again.
Detailed explanation-3: -A vaccine is a substance that is used to stimulate the production of antibodies, thereby providing immunity against certain diseases.
Detailed explanation-4: -The role of vaccines is to provide immunity against a disease. Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate an individual’s immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen.
Detailed explanation-5: -mRNA, which is the technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, degrades in the body naturally after a few days, and the spike protein it creates only stays for a couple weeks [3].
Detailed explanation-6: -Several diseases like cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox and hepatitis can be prevented by vaccination.