BIOLOGY 445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Papillomaviridae, Hib Vaccine, Polio Vaccine

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Lecture 14b: vaccines: explain how vaccines work, vaccines are made of dead or weakened antigens. They can"t cause an infection, but the immune system still sees them as an enemy and produces antibodies in response. Some people can"t be vaccinated, either because they are too young, or because their immune systems are too weak, according to the cdc. But if everyone around them is vaccinated, unvaccinated people are protected by something called herd immunity. In other words, they"re unlikely to even come in contact with the disease, so they probably won"t get sick: describe the diseases prevented by currently recommended vaccines for infants and young children, hepb hepatitis b, acute (short term) illness. This can lead to loss of appetite, tiredness, pain in muscles, joints, and stomach, diarrhea and vomiting, jaundice. Acute illness, with symptoms, is more common among adults. Children who become infected usually do not havy symptoms: chronic (long term) infection.

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