Vaccinations

Question 1

What does a vaccination involve

Answer 1

Putting a small amount of an inactive form of a pathogen into the body

Question 2

What antigens can vaccines contain

Answer 2

-Live pathogens with antigen is treated to make them harmless
-Harmless fragments of the pathogen antigens
-toxins produced by pathogens
-dead pathogens with antigens

Question 3

How do vaccinations work

Answer 3

-Small amounts of dead or inactive passengers are injected into the body
-The dead pathogens are covered in antigen’s and get into your body
-Then it goes through the humoral response B-lymphosytes Activate and divide (mitosis) plasma cells produce antibodies (monoclonal) be cell differentiate in memory cells for long-term immunity

Question 4

What is antibiotic resistance

Answer 4

-where a certain strain of bacteria can no longer be killed by antibiotic
- this is caused by doctors overprescribing antibiotics or patients not finishing their course of antibiotics

Question 5

What is herd immunity

Answer 5

• Vaccination of a significant number of the population to make it difficult for a pathogen to spread
  -high % protected from disease