a vaccine is given to stimulate the body's production of what?
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A vaccine looks like the real thing to our body.\nSo it fools our defense system to start building antibodies for that one germ or virus.\n\nSo when we are infected, our defense is already up and running.
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Hopefully nowhere.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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hi im a medical student...\n\nthe flu shot that is given in the U.S. is an attenuated virus mixed viral antigens.  So it cant "make" you sick.  What your eperiencing is probably your immune system preparing to fight a viral infection or 'gearing up' as if it were exposed to the live viral antigens....
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To trigger a biological response.
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That's pretty much correct. One example would be for rehydrating a freeze-dried vaccine.
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Raptiva injections. Some side effects such as lowered immune system as that is how it works..by suppressing the immune system
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There was a vaccine until about Spring 2002.  It was called LYMErix but was discontinued due to very low sales and possible ineffectiveness.  I guess it wasn't popular enough with doctors!
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it's not cell mutation.  it's caused by your immune system.  vaccines contain mostly organic materials such as egg whites and  glucose.  these organic materials are usually taken orally.  the enzymes in your mouth begin digesting them.  since these materials are being introduced to the bloodstream directly instead of travelling throughout the body, the immune system kicks in.  this is similar to hives from an allergic reaction.  hope this helps.
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antibody immune response.\n\nits an antibody, its foreign; new to the body.
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Humoral immunity refers to an immune response from antibodies (for example, an antibody is produced by a B cell and recognizes a foreign antigen and triggers an immune reponse).  In contrast, cell mediated immunity occurs when a cell (for example a T cell) directly recognizes a foreign antigen being "presented" by another cell.
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the Influenza Vaccine - the "flu shot' is made up of killed inactivated Influenza virus. It is grown in chicken egg culture and the antibiotic Neomycin is added to it to prevent bacterial growth and a small amount of thimersol (inorganic non-tox mercury) is added as a preservative. \n\nSo if you are allergic to eggs, have an allergy to neomycin or have had the disease Guillan-Barre (a rare neurological disease that has been linked to Influenza and Meningitis vaccinations), you should not receive it.\n\nOtherwise, I would definitely recommend it. \n\nhope this is helpful.
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Vaccines have saved millions of lives and continue to do so.\nIt is not bad to get vaccinated despite what some people might say
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A general answer is Chemicals\nCertain chemicals trigger certain chemicals in your body
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Thymic protein\n\nCheck this out http://newenglandnutritives.com/pro_boost_thymic.htm
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When you're given a vaccination you're actually being given a very mild infection.  For example, if you've had a tuberculosis jab then you were infected with tuberculosis but only on a very mild scale - not enough to cause you harm.\n\nThe body's in-build defense mechanism will have kicked into overdrive and created anti-bodies to fight off the infection and long after the infection has been defeated the anti-bodies remain in the blood stream.  Then at a later date if you contract the infection for real the body is much better prepared to deal with it.\n\nIn today's society where people are obsessed with cleanliness and killing every germ in sight the result is that the bodies defenses are seriously weakened against what should be pretty routing infections.  In other words, due to being over hygienic we're now far more susceptible to illnesses and diseases.\n\nThe word vaccine comes from the Latin for cow and gets it's name from Edward Jenner's research into cowpox and smallpox.  Jenner discovered vaccination when he established a link between the mild infection cowpox that many milk maids suffered from and the much more deadly smallpox.  He found that by injecting the pus from sores from the milk maids into people with smallpox that the disease could be cured.
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The first recombinant antigen vaccine approved for use was for prevention of Hepatitis B.  The vaccine consists of a surface protein of the Hep B virus recombinantly expressed in yeast.  The vaccine debuted in the mid-1980s and is still in use.\n\nFor Hagis; Although it's true that insulin was the first recombinant protein approved for human use, is not a vaccine.  By definition, a vaccine is a substance that stimulates host immunity against a pathogen.
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Antigen is any substance that evokes the production of an antibody when introduced into the body. Antigens can enter the body through the respiratory tract, digestive tract, or skin. The most common antigens are proteins such as those found in/on bacteria and viruses.While an antibody Antibody, any of perhaps a million kinds of normally occurring protein molecules that are produced in the body of cells called lymphocytes and that act primarily as a defence against invasion by foreign substances. An important component of the immune system, antibodies are found in the blood of all vertebrates, in the fraction of the blood called gamma globulin.