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Vaccine Vs Live Vaccine Essay

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When people hear the word vaccine, the word shot comes to mind. A vaccine is much more than just a shot, a vaccine helps defend your body from getting sick. When a vaccine is given, the vaccine contains an active or inactive virus that matches the type of disease that is trying to be prevented. Vaccines contain a small dose of the virus in order to simulate the production of antibodies and white blood cells in your body. The antibodies and white blood cells will then begin to fight off the virus, so in the future, if the disease does enter your body, the antibodies and white blood cells will recognize the disease and will know how to fight it off (“How Vaccines Work” 2004).
Types of vaccines used include live, subunit, inactivated, toxoid, and DNA. A …show more content…

Live vaccines can be very simple to create for certain types of viruses, however it is more difficult to create for bacteria viruses. Although, live vaccines must stay refrigerated which makes it hard to deliver the vaccines to 3rd world countries. Subunit vaccines only use the antigens that will the body will recognize instead of using the entire microbe. Scientists are able to grow an entire microbe and then choose the antigens they need by breaking the microbe apart. Another type of vaccine is inactivated vaccines, which the virus is killed through treatments like heat and chemicals. Although, these types of vaccines require more doses or booster shots than a live vaccine to acquire a similar immune response as a live vaccine. This type of vaccine is able to travel to other countries due to the fact that it does not require refrigeration. If there is a bacterial disease that involves toxins, then a toxoid vaccine would be used. The toxins can be treated by a solution

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