Fighting Disease - Vaccination

Question 1

What does the Vaccination?

Answer 1

Vaccination involve injecting small amounts of dead or inactive pathogens. These carry antigens, which cause your body to produce antibodies to attack them - even though the pathogen is harmless (since it’s dead or inactive). So if the life pathogen of the same type that you were vaccinated from, the white blood cells can rapidly mass-produce antibodies to kill off the pathogen.

Question 2

What are the Pros of Vaccination?

Answer 2

Vaccines have helped to control lots of communicable diseases that were common in the UK.
Big outbreaks of disease - called epidemics - can be prevented if a large percentage of the population is vaccinated.

Question 3

What are the Cons of Vaccination?

Answer 3

Vaccines don’t always work - sometimes they don’t give you immunity.
You can sometimes have a bad reaction to a vaccine. But thse are very rare.