MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vaccines provide active immunity to disease. Vaccines do not make you sick, but they can trick your body into believing it has a disease, so it can fight the disease.

Detailed explanation-2: -Active Immunity Natural immunity is acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease. Vaccine-induced immunity is acquired through the introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination.

Detailed explanation-3: -Active immunity is a disease resistance that results from the protection of proteins called antibodies. Examples of active immunity include a person’s resistance to strep throat due to a previous infection or a person’s immunity to polio due to the polio vaccine.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two types of immunity exist-active and passive: Active immunity occurs when our own immune system is responsible for protecting us from a pathogen. Passive immunity occurs when we are protected from a pathogen by immunity gained from someone else.