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re: Why do people keep calling it a vaccine?
Posted on 7/29/21 at 9:40 pm to crazy4lsu
Posted on 7/29/21 at 9:40 pm to crazy4lsu
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But every FDA approved vaccine isn't delineated along 'attenuated or dead' as the OP implies.
Yes, it is. I’ll paste the definition for you below of how the CDC defines a vaccine:
Vaccines contain the same germs that cause disease. (For example, measles vaccine contains measles virus, and Hib vaccine contains Hib bacteria.) But they have been either killed or weakened to the point that they don’t make you sick. Some vaccines contain only a part of the disease germ.
A vaccine stimulates your immune system to produce antibodies, exactly like it would if you were exposed to the disease. After getting vaccinated, you develop immunity to that disease, without having to get the disease first.
This is what makes vaccines such powerful medicine. Unlike most medicines, which treat or cure diseases, vaccines prevent them.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 9:42 pm to 00 Tech Grad
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But they have been either killed or weakened to the point that they don’t make you sick. Some vaccines contain only a part of the disease germ.
Except for the ones that don't contain any of the 'germs,' including an acellular vaccine which everyone takes.
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