Fighting Diseases Flashcards
What is a vaccination?
A vaccination is a way of preventing illness from a pathogen.
How does a vaccine work?
A vaccination is when you are injected with a dead, inactive or weak pathogen. This causes your immune system to produce the correct amount of white blood cells to kill the pathogen. This means that if you contract a live version of the pathogen, your immune response time will be faster than before because your immune system knows how to respond already.
What is in a vaccination?
A weak, dead or inactive pathogen
What do antibiotics help with?
killing bacterial pathogens
What type of pathogen do antibiotics not help?
Viruses
What are antibiotics?
Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections. They may either kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria.
Antibodies
Released by white blood cells, they attach to the outside of pathogens so they clump them together which means white blood cells can engulf the cluster of pathogens with ease
What are the two types of white blood cell
Phagocytes and Lymphocytes
