Preventing and Treating Infectious Disease

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2) What is Immunisation (vaccination)?

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Involves injecting the body with dead or inactive pathogens

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1) What is the problem for white blood cells when facing new pathogens?

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When your body encounters a new pathogen white blood cells take time to produce antibodies, in this time the infected human can become very ill and potentially die

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3) How can inactive pathogens injected in a vaccination provoke a response from the immune system?

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Because they carry antigens so white blood cells create antibodies to attack them

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4) what is active immunity?

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When the immune system makes its own antibodies after being stimulated by a pathogen, this includes becoming naturally or artificially immune to a pathogen (usually permanent)

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5) What is passive immunity?

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Where antibodies are made by another organism so, passed on (only temporal immunity)

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6) What are the two main benefits of vaccination?

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Stops people from becoming ill and disease won’t spread as easy

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7) What are the short-term side effects of vaccination?

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Swelling and redness at injection site as well as, feeling under the weather for a week or two

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8) What are the two main risks of vaccination?

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You can’t have some vaccinations when your already ill (especially if the immune system is weakened), some people believe that MMR vaccinations could lead to autism (untrue)

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9) What are antibiotics?

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Drugs that kill bacteria without killing your own body cells

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10) Antibiotics can clear up bacterial infection but, not…?

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Viruses

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11) What are antivirals?

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Drugs used to stop viruses (viral infections) reproducing

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12) Bacteria are ….. to certain …..?

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Naturally resistant, antibiotics

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13) What factors can increase the rate of development of resistant strains?

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Misuse of antibiotics due to over-prescription and patients not finishing the course