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Chapter 27, Problem 5SA
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Why only a single shot is necessary for the chicken pox vaccine, but a shot is needed every year in the case of the influenza vaccine.

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Vaccines are weakened pathogens or parts of pathogens that help to create an immune memory in the body's immune cells.

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